Both chambers would remove mandatory terms for minor drug violators.

More typical among women convicted of drug offenses are 5- and 10-year mandatory terms.

Their charges could also bring up to life imprisonment but without the mandatory term.

Both men suggested longer mandatory terms for people convicted of crimes involving guns.

It carries a mandatory minimum term of 10 years.

Some students study for several years after this mandatory term.

The mandatory term of service was reduced from 18 months at the beginning of 2008.

If someone was injured by the gun in the commission of a crime, the mandatory term would rise to 20 years.

Even without these aggravating factors, simple extortion carries a mandatory term of 27 months.

For this crime he was sentenced to the mandatory minimum term of life imprisonment.