[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1612 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1612

 To provide the Department of Justice with additional tools to target 
              extraterritorial drug trafficking activity.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 22, 2011

Mrs. Feinstein (for herself, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Blumenthal, 
   Mr. Casey, Mr. Udall of New Mexico, and Mr. Wyden) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide the Department of Justice with additional tools to target 
              extraterritorial drug trafficking activity.

    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 ``Targeting Transnational Drug 
Trafficking Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. POSSESSION, MANUFACTURE OR DISTRIBUTION FOR PURPOSES OF 
              UNLAWFUL IMPORTATIONS.

    (a) Possession, Manufacture or Distribution for Purposes of 
Unlawful Importations.--Section 1009 of the Controlled Substances 
Import and Export Act (21 U.S.C. 959) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (b) and (c) as subsections 
        (c) and (d), respectively; and
            (2) in subsection (a), by striking ``It shall'' and all 
        that follows and inserting the following: ``It shall be 
        unlawful for any person to manufacture or distribute a 
        controlled substance in schedule I or II or flunitrazepam 
        intending, knowing, or having reasonable cause to believe that 
        such substance will be unlawfully imported into the United 
        States or into waters within a distance of 12 miles of the 
        coast of the United States.
    ``(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture or 
distribute a listed chemical--
            ``(1) intending or knowing that the listed chemical will be 
        used to manufacture a controlled substance; and
            ``(2) intending, knowing, or having reasonable cause to 
        believe that the controlled substance will be unlawfully 
        imported into the United States.''.
    (b) Attempt and Conspiracy.--Section 1013 of the Controlled 
Substances Import and Export Act (21 U.S.C. 963) is amended by adding 
at the end the following: ``For a conspiracy to commit such an offense 
that requires the person to intend, know, or have reasonable cause to 
believe that a controlled substance will be unlawfully imported into 
the United States, it is sufficient to prove a conspiracy to commit the 
offense that only 1 member of the conspiracy intended, knew, or had 
reasonable cause to believe that the controlled substance would be 
unlawfully imported into the United States.''.
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