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PA Bill Number: HB150

Title: In sentencing, repealing provisions relating to transfer of inmates in need of medical treatment and providing for modification of an imposed term of ...

Description: In sentencing, repealing provisions relating to transfer of inmates in need of medical treatment and providing for modification of an imposed term ...

Last Action: Third consideration and final passage (111-92)

Last Action Date: Dec 17, 2025

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The New Powers the FBI Just Granted Itself :: 06/16/2011

The Federal Bureau of Investigations has rewritten its own operations manual , giving its agents more autonomy than ever to conduct low-level searches without a paper trail. As The New York Times reported today, there's no court decision or change in privacy laws governing the bureau's search techniques. Rather, the 2011 update to the 2008 Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide changes the bureau's own guidelines. But some of the new powers trouble privacy activists even though they're perfectly legal.

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