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06-S4113 on Dec 8, 2006

EXCERPTS OF BILL: Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include territories and Indian tribes as eligible grant recipients (or reaffirm such eligibility) under the programs to:

1. address the manufacture, sale, and use of methamphetamine;
2. aid children in homes in which methamphetamine or other drugs are unlawfully manufactured, distributed, dispensed, or used; and
3. address methamphetamine use by pregnant and parenting women offenders.

LEGISLATIVE OUTCOME:Passed/agreed to in Senate, by Unanimous Consent.

Participating counts on VoteMatch question 19.
• Topic: Drugs
• Headline: Federal grants to Indian tribes to fight methamphetamine (Score: 2)
• Headline 2: Sponsored bill for grants to Indian tribes to fight meth (Score: 2)
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• Surveys: '+' supports; '-' opposes.