[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3755 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3755

   To amend the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 848) to provide 
          increased penalties for methamphetamine traffickers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 13, 2005

  Mr. Reichert (for himself and Mr. Souder) introduced the following 
  bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in 
 addition to the Committee on Energy and 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 Act (21 U.S.C. 848) to provide 
          increased penalties for methamphetamine traffickers.

    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 ``Increased Penalties for 
Methamphetamine Traffickers Act''.

SEC. 2. CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT AMENDMENT.

    Section 408 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 848) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(s) Special Provision for Methamphetamine.--For the purposes of 
subsection (b), in the case of continuing criminal enterprise involving 
methamphetamine or its salts, isomers, or salts of isomers, paragraph 
(2)(A) shall be applied by substituting `100' for `300', and paragraph 
(2)(B) shall be applied by substituting `$1,000,000' for `$10 million 
dollars'.''.
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