[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 184 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 184

  To amend the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to provide 
authority to the Attorney General to authorize any controlled substance 
that is in schedule I or II or is a narcotic drug in schedule III or IV 
   to be exported from the United States to a country for subsequent 
export from that country to another country, if certain conditions are 
                                  met.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 4, 2005

Mr. Pitts (for himself, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Cannon, Mr. Bishop of Utah, and 
 Mr. Cunningham) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee 
  on the Judiciary, 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 provide 
authority to the Attorney General to authorize any controlled substance 
that is in schedule I or II or is a narcotic drug in schedule III or IV 
   to be exported from the United States to a country for subsequent 
export from that country to another country, if certain conditions are 
                                  met.

    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 Export Reform 
Act of 2005''.

SEC. 2. SUBSEQUENT EXPORT OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

    Section 1003 of the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act (21 
U.S.C. 953) is amended by adding at the end the following subsection:
    ``(f) Notwithstanding subsections (a)(4) and (c)(3), the Attorney 
General may authorize any controlled substance that is in schedule I or 
II or is a narcotic drug in schedule III or IV to be exported from the 
United States to a country for subsequent export from that country to 
another country, if each of the following conditions is met:
            ``(1) Both the country to which the controlled substance is 
        exported from the United States (referred to in this subsection 
        as the `first country') and the country to which the controlled 
        substance is exported from the first country (referred to in 
        this subsection as the `second country') are parties to the 
        Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, and the Convention 
        on Psychotropic Substances, 1971.
            ``(2) The first country and the second country have each 
        instituted and maintain, in conformity with such Conventions, a 
        system of controls of imports of controlled substances which 
        the Attorney General deems adequate.
            ``(3) With respect to the first country, the controlled 
        substance is consigned to a holder of such permits or licenses 
        as may be required under the laws of such country, and a permit 
        or license to import the controlled substance has been issued 
        by the country.
            ``(4) With respect to the second country, substantial 
        evidence is furnished to the Attorney General by the person who 
        will export the controlled substance from the United States 
        that--
                    ``(A) the controlled substance is to be consigned 
                to a holder of such permits or licenses as may be 
                required under the laws of such country, and a permit 
                or license to import the controlled substance is to be 
                issued by the country; and
                    ``(B) the controlled substance is to be applied 
                exclusively to medical, scientific, or other legitimate 
                uses within the country.
            ``(5) The controlled substance will not be exported from 
        the second country.
            ``(6) Within 30 days after the controlled substance is 
        exported from the first country to the second country, the 
        person who exported the controlled substance from the United 
        States delivers to the Attorney General documentation 
        certifying that such export from the first country has 
        occurred.
            ``(7) A permit to export the controlled substance from the 
        United States has been issued by the Attorney General.''.
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