[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6037 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6037

 To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for an exception to 
the prohibition against mailing tobacco products for products mailed to 
         members of the Armed Forces serving in a combat zone.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 30, 2010

  Mr. Hunter (for himself, Mr. Whitfield, Mr. Lamborn, Mr. Miller of 
   Florida, and Mr. Rooney) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for an exception to 
the prohibition against mailing tobacco products for products mailed to 
         members of the Armed Forces serving in a combat zone.

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

SECTION 1. TOBACCO PRODUCTS MAILED TO MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES SERVING 
              IN COMBAT ZONE.

    Section 1716E(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(7) Members of armed forces serving in combat zone.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Subsection (a) shall not apply 
                to tobacco products mailed to a member of the Armed 
                Forces who is serving in a combat zone.
                    ``(B) Combat zone defined.--In this paragraph, the 
                term `combat zone' means an area designated by the 
                President as a combat zone for purposes of section 112 
                of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.''.
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