[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2242 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2242

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 26, 1998

   Mr. DeWine (for himself, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Abraham, Mr. 
 Sessions, and Mr. Coverdell) introduced the following bill; which was 
       read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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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 Canada and 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--
            (1) by striking ``The Attorney General'' and inserting 
        ``(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Attorney General''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(2) Notwithstanding any exemption under paragraph (1), a United 
States resident who enters the United States through an international 
land border with a controlled substance (except a substance in schedule 
I) for which the individual does not possess a valid prescription 
issued by a practitioner (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled 
Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802)) in accordance with applicable Federal 
and State law (or documentation that verifies the issuance of such a 
prescription to that individual) may not import the controlled 
substance into the United States in an amount that exceeds 50 dosage 
units (as defined by the Attorney General by regulation) of the 
controlled substance.''.
    (b) Federal Minimum Requirement.--Section 1006(a)(2) of the 
Controlled Substances Import and Export Act, as added by this section, 
is a minimum Federal requirement and shall not be construed to limit a 
State from imposing any 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 (21 U.S.C. 
301 et seq.).
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