3713 , occasioned by the manager's amendment adopted before the Senate Judiciary Committee passed S. 2123 , are noted in the prefatory remarks for each chart, and in the remarks relating to the inventory of federal crimes. S. 502 / H.R. H.R. 2944 would expand the safety valve to mandatory minimums associated with the use of firearm during and in furtherance of a drug trafficking cases as well as to drug trafficking mandatory minimums. 3553(a). Fair Sentencing Act

Originally, the Controlled Substances Act made no distinction between powder cocaine and crack cocaine (cocaine base). 2944 would simply make the FSA retroactively applicable. 3713 and H.R. 2944 would create no new mandatory minimum sentencing provisions.
This is a comparison of selected criminal sentencing reform bills as introduced: H.R. 3713, H.R. 2944, S. 502, and H.R. 920; and S. 2123 as passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee with a manager's amendment. It consists of narrative and charts comparing the bills with respect to adjustments in the mandatory minimum sentencing provisions that apply to controlled substance and firearms offenses, the safety valve, and retroactive application of the Fair Sentencing Act (FSA).