Federal Emergency Meth Cleanup Funding Act of 2007
The Federal Meth Cleanup Funding Act of 2007 would help homeowners pay for the cost of decontaminating their meth lab home. Since the introduction of this bill on September 26, 2007, no action has been taken to get this legislation passed. While families wait for some help to pay for the clean up of their homes, they and their children continue to get sick, lose their homes to foreclosure, and lose some, most, or all of the possessions they had inside of their homes when they discovered that the previous owner had used it to manufacture methamphetamine. This bill needs to be passed to protect innocent families from financial ruin and the health dangers they face from living in a former meth lab home.
Federal Emergency Meth Lab Cleanup Funding Act of 2007 (Introduced in Senate)
S 2100 IS
Introduced on Sep 26, 2007.
Sep 26, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Sponsored by: Sen. Tim Johnson [D, SD] and Sen. John Barrasso [R, WY]
Committees – Senate Judiciary
Amendments -This bill has no amendments.
110th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2100To require that Federal forfeiture funds be used, in part, to clean up methamphetamine laboratories.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
September 26, 2007
Mr. JOHNSON (for himself and Mr. BARRASSO) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A bill To require that Federal forfeiture funds be used, in part, to clean up methamphetamine laboratories.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE
This Act may be cited as the `Federal Emergency Meth Lab Cleanup Funding Act of 2007.
SEC. 2. FUNDING FROM TREASURY FORFEITURE FUND.
(I) the property owner did not have knowledge of the existence or operation of such laboratory before the law enforcement action to close it; or
`(II) the property owner notifies law enforcement not later than 24 hours after discovering the existence of such laboratory.
`(K)(i) Payment to the designated State, local, or tribal law enforcement, environmental, or health entity for experts and consultants needed to clean up any area formerly used as a methamphetamine laboratory.
(ii) If a methamphetamine laboratory is located on private property, not more than 90 percent of the costs may be paid only if–
(1) by redesignating section 9703 (as added by Public Law 103-62) as section 9703A;
(2) by moving section 9703 (as added by Public Law 102-393) so as to appear after section 9702; and
(3) in section 9703(a)(1), by adding at the end the following:
Chapter 97 of title 31, United States Code, is amended