[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 220 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 220

  To reimburse municipalities for tax liens which had been placed on 
                          forfeited property.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 27 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

 Mr. Smith (for himself and Mr. Graham) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To reimburse municipalities for tax liens which had been placed on 
                          forfeited property.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ASSET FORFEITURE.

    (a) Section 524 of title 28, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (c)(1)(H) to be subsection 
        (c)(1)(I); and
            (2) by inserting a new subsection (c)(1)(H) as follows:
                    ``(H) the payment of State and local property taxes 
                on forfeited real property that accrued between the 
                date of the violation giving rise to the forfeiture and 
                the date of the forfeiture order; and''.
    (b) The provisions of this section shall apply to all claims 
pending at the time of or commenced subsequent to the date of the 
enactment of this Act.

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