S.Amdt. 2837

SA 2837. Mr. HATCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2282 proposed by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain)
to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle F of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1066. AUTHORITY OF PROBATION OFFICERS.

(a) In General.--Section 3606 of title 18, United States
Code, is amended--
(1) in the heading, by striking ``and return of a
probationer'' and by inserting ``authority of probation
officers'';
(2) by striking ``If there'' and inserting ``(a) If
there''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(b) A probation officer, while in the performance of his
or her official duties, may arrest a person without a warrant
if there is probable cause to believe that the person has
forcibly assaulted, resisted, opposed, impeded, intimidated,
or interfered with the probation officer, or a fellow
probation officer, in violation of section 111. The arrest
authority described in this subsection shall be exercised
under such rules and regulations as the Director of the
Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall
prescribe.''.
(b) Table of Sections.--The table of sections for
subchapter A of chapter 229 of title 18, United States Code,
is amended by striking the item relating to section 3606 and
inserting the following:

``3606. Arrest authority of probation officers.''.
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