[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1233 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1233

 To provide penalties for certain unauthorized writing with respect to 
                           consumer products.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 24, 2001

   Mr. Kohl (for himself, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Leahy, Mr. DeWine, and Mr. 
    Durbin) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide penalties for certain unauthorized writing with respect to 
                           consumer products.

    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 ``Product Packaging Protection Act of 
2001''.

SEC. 2. TAMPERING WITH CONSUMER PRODUCTS.

    Section 1365 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (f) and (g) as subsections 
        (g) and (h), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (e) the following new 
        subsection (f):
    ``(f)(1) Whoever, without the consent of the manufacturer, 
retailer, or authorized distributor, intentionally tampers with a 
consumer product that is sold in interstate or foreign commerce by 
knowingly placing or inserting any writing in the consumer product, or 
the container for the consumer product, before the sale of the consumer 
product to any consumer shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not 
more than three years, or both.
    ``(2) As used in paragraph (1) of this subsection, the term 
`writing' means any form of representation or communication, including 
handbills, notices, or advertising, that contain letters, words, or 
pictorial representations.''.
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