[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2242 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2242

 To amend the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances 
Import and Export Act regarding penalties for cocaine offenses, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 20, 2011

    Mr. Scott of Virginia (for himself, Mr. Paul, Mr. Conyers, Mr. 
 Bartlett, Ms. Norton, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Cohen, Ms. Waters, Mr. Payne, 
 Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Nadler, and Mr. 
    Moran) 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 and the Controlled Substances 
Import and Export Act regarding penalties for cocaine offenses, 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 ``Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act 
of 2011''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF INCREASED PENALTIES FOR COCAINE OFFENSES WHERE 
              THE COCAINE INVOLVED IS COCAINE BASE.

    (a) Controlled Substances Act.--The following provisions of the 
Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.) are repealed:
            (1) Clause (iii) of section 401(b)(1)(A).
            (2) Clause (iii) of section 401(b)(1)(B).
            (3) The sentence beginning ``Notwithstanding the preceding 
        sentence'' in section 404(a).
    (b) Controlled Substances Import and Export Act.--The following 
provisions of the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act (21 
U.S.C. 951 et seq.) are repealed:
            (1) Subparagraph (C) of section 1010(b)(1).
            (2) Subparagraph (C) of section 1010(b)(2).
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