[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3633 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3633

   To amend the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to place 
  limitations on controlled substances brought into the United States 
                              from Mexico.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 1, 1998

   Mr. Chabot (for himself, Mr. McCollum, Mr. Gekas, Mr. Graham, Mr. 
Hutchinson, Mr. Portman, Mr. Boehner, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Hunter, and Mr. 
   Schumer) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
    Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 
Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
   each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to place 
  limitations on controlled substances brought into the United States 
                              from Mexico.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Controlled Substances Trafficking 
Prohibition Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION.

    (a) Amendment.--Section 1006(a) of the Controlled Substances Import 
and Export Act (21 U.S.C. 956(a)) is amended by striking ``The Attorney 
General'' and inserting ``(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
Attorney General'' and by adding at the end the following:
    ``(2) Any individual who enters the United States through a land 
border with Mexico with a controlled substance (except a substance in 
schedule I) for which such individual does not possess a prescription 
written by a practitioner licensed under the authority of this Act or 
documentation which verifies such a prescription and who meets the 
requirements of paragraph (1) may bring a controlled substance (except 
a substance in schedule I) into the United States but only in an 
amount--
            ``(A) which is not more than 50 dosage units (as defined by 
        the Attorney General in regulation) of the controlled 
        substances; or
            ``(B) which, in the case of an individual who does not 
        lawfully reside in the United States, is consistent with the 
        approximate length of the individual's stay in the United 
        States as determined by a United States Customs official at the 
        United States border.''.
    (b) Federal Minimum Requirement.--The requirement of the section 
1006(a)(2) of the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act, added by 
the amendment made by subsection (a), is a minimum Federal requirement 
and does not limit any State from imposing an additional requirement.
    (c) Extent.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall not be 
construed to affect the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
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