PICTURE Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, PICTURE Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors. The main policy domain is Criminal Justice.
Who Benefits and How
law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section H6AEAA52A75E341EE847653F3769A6C99: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Photographing Incarcerated Criminals To Update Records and Evidence Act or the PICTURE Act.
- Section HE4F97890F7AE498E9109C56DC966A6E2: 2. Photographic directory of Federal prisoners Chapter 301 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 4015.Photographic...
- Section HA93122B935D7437C8449A922D9A396AE: 4015. Photographic directory of Federal prisoners The Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall maintain a photographic directory that includes a photograph of...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, PICTURE Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors.
Key Policy Areas
Criminal Justice
Primary Purpose
This bill, PICTURE Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in House
Mr. Perry introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "federal_implementing_agencies"
- → Federal agencies assigned duties by the bill
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