[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2893 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2893

To amend the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to prevent the 
  use of Indian reservations located on the United States borders to 
   facilitate cross-border drug trafficking, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 16, 2009

  Mr. Schumer introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to prevent the 
  use of Indian reservations located on the United States borders to 
   facilitate cross-border drug trafficking, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Cross Border Reservation Drug 
Trafficking Sentence Enhancement Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. SENTENCING ENHANCEMENT FOR THE USE OF A BORDER INDIAN 
              RESERVATIONS TO FACILITATE CROSS-BORDER DRUG TRAFFICKING.

    Section 1010(b) of the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act 
(21 U.S.C. 960(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(8)(A) Whoever during and in relation to a violation of 
        subsection (a) enters, leaves, or is within a border Indian 
        reservation, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be fined 
        under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not more than 
        10 years, or both. Any term of imprisonment imposed under this 
        paragraph shall be served consecutively to any term imposed for 
        the violation of subsection (a).
            ``(B) In this paragraph, the term `border Indian 
        reservation' means a Federal or State Indian reservation that 
        borders or traverses any portion of a United States 
        international border.''.
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