[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5668 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5668

 To amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act 
     to require the use of sums received as fines, penalties, and 
  forfeitures of property for violations of that Act or other marine 
    resource laws to be used to reduce the Federal deficit and debt.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 1, 2010

  Mr. Jones introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act 
     to require the use of sums received as fines, penalties, and 
  forfeitures of property for violations of that Act or other marine 
    resource laws to be used to reduce the Federal deficit and debt.

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

SECTION 1. USE OF FINES, PENALTIES, AND FORFEITURES OF PROPERTY FOR 
              VIOLATIONS OF MARINE RESOURCE LAWS TO REDUCE THE FEDERAL 
              DEFICIT AND DEBT.

    Section 311(e)(1) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1861(e)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, sums 
        received as fines, penalties, and forfeitures of property for 
        violations of any provisions of this Act or of any other marine 
        resource law enforced by the Secretary, including the Lacey Act 
        Amendments of 1981 (16 U.S.C. 3371 et seq.) shall be deposited 
        into the Treasury and applied--
                    ``(A) to reduce the annual Federal budget deficit 
                for the fiscal year in which the sums are received, 
                except as provided in subparagraph (B); and
                    ``(B) if there is no annual Federal budget deficit 
                for such fiscal year, to reduce the outstanding Federal 
                debt.''.
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