S. 3960

Summary

S. 3960, the Smarter Pretrial Detention for Drug Charges Act of 2026, was introduced in the Senate on Mar 2, 2026 by Sen. Richard Durbin (D) with 3 co-sponsors. It was referred to Judiciary, and last saw action on Mar 2, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S735).

Record

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S. 3960 has 3 co-sponsors.

II  119th CONGRESS  2d Session  S. 3960  IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES   March 2, 2026   Mr. Durbin  (for himself,  Mr. Lee ,  Mr. Coons , and  Mr. Wicker ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the  Committee on the Judiciary    A BILL
To give Federal courts additional discretion to determine whether pretrial detention is appropriate for defendants charged with nonviolent drug offenses in Federal criminal cases.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the   Smarter Pretrial Detention for Drug Charges Act of 2026  .
2.
Release conditions and detention in Federal criminal cases
Section 3142 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—
(1)
by striking  (42 U.S.C. 14135a)  each place it appears and inserting  (34 U.S.C. 40702) ; and
(2)
in subsection (e)(3)—
(A)
by striking subparagraph (A); and
(B)
by redesignating subparagraphs (B), (C), (D), and (E) as subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), and (D), respectively.

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A bill to give Federal courts additional discretion to determine whether pretrial detention is appropriate for defendants charged with nonviolent drug offenses in Federal criminal cases.

Sponsors

Sen. Richard Durbin (D) sponsors S. 3960, and 3 members have co-sponsored it, all of them from the day it was introduced.

Richard Durbin

Sen. · D–IL · Sponsor

Introduced Mar 2, 2026

Christopher Coons

Sen. · D–DE · Co-sponsor

Joined Mar 2, 2026 · Original

Mike Lee

Sen. · R–UT · Co-sponsor

Joined Mar 2, 2026 · Original

Roger Wicker

Sen. · R–MS · Co-sponsor

Joined Mar 2, 2026 · Original

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Committees

S. 3960 went before 1 committee: Judiciary.

Judiciary

Judiciary

Referred To · Mar 2, 2026

Actions

S. 3960 has taken 2 actions since Mar 2, 2026.

Votes

S. 3960 has not gone to a roll call.

Titles

S. 3960 goes by 3 titles, 1 of them short titles.

• Smarter Pretrial Detention for Drug Charges Act of 2026 — Display Title
• Smarter Pretrial Detention for Drug Charges Act of 2026 — Short Title(s) as Introduced
• A bill to give Federal courts additional discretion to determine whether pretrial detention is appropriate for defendants charged with nonviolent drug offenses in Federal criminal cases. — Official Title as Introduced

Lobbying

1 client hired 1 firm and 2 registered lobbyists who named S. 3960 in 1 quarterly filing, 2026. Reported under the Lobbying Disclosure Act; a filing’s income covers everything its registrant worked that quarter, so the amounts below are the filings’, not this bill’s.

Filed under Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice.

Clients

Who paid to be heard, by how many filings named the bill.

Firms

Registrants who filed on the bill, by filings.

Lobbyists

Named on the filings that cite the bill.

Filings

The documents themselves, on the Senate’s Lobbying Disclosure site, largest reported first.

Classification

The Congressional Research Service files S. 3960 under Crime and Law Enforcement, one of its 31 policy areas.

CRS Subjects

CRS assigns every bill one policy area from its 31; S. 3960’s is Crime and Law Enforcement.

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