---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3608"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3608"
heading: "Drug testing of Federal offenders on post-conviction release"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3608"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 229 — Postsentence Administration"
  - "Subchapter A — Probation"
---

# §3608. Drug testing of Federal offenders on post-conviction release


The Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, in consultation with the [Attorney General](/usc/18/3077.md?p=7) and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall, subject to the availability of appropriations, establish a program of drug testing of Federal offenders on post-conviction release. The program shall include such standards and guidelines as the Director may determine necessary to ensure the reliability and accuracy of the drug testing programs. In each judicial district the chief probation officer shall arrange for the drug testing of defendants on post-conviction release pursuant to a conviction for a [felony](/usc/18/3156.md?p=a-3) or other [offense](/usc/18/3156.md?p=a-2) described in [section 3563(a)(4)](/usc/18/3563.md?p=a-4).[^1]


## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–322, title II, § 20414(a)(1), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1830.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 3563(a)(4), referred to in text, probably means the par. (4) of section 3563(a) added by section 20414(b)(3) of Pub. L. 103–322, which was renumbered par. (5) by Pub. L. 104–132, title II, § 203(1)(C), Apr. 24, 1996, 110 Stat. 1227.