By , Kelly Cohen
Published December 20, 2015
As part of the House Judiciary Committee's ongoing effort to address criminal justice reform, members of the panel unveiled four bills aimed at addressing over-criminalization.
The four bills are set to be marked up Wednesday morning by the full committee, along with the Sentencing Reform Act, whose corresponding Senate bill passed through the Senate Judiciary Committee late last month.
"Over the past few decades, the federal criminal code has expanded dramatically. The bills introduced by several of our colleagues make commonsense changes to the federal criminal code to ensure our laws fit within the overall federal criminal law scheme, are appropriate in force relative to other criminal laws, require that a person must intend to commit a crime in order to be criminally liable for that crime, and are necessary. We look forward to moving these bills through the committee soon," House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and Ranking Member John Conyers, D-Mich., said in a joint statement Tuesday during introduction of the four bills.
Here are the bills introduced:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-judiciary-committee-unveils-decriminalization-bills