[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
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[S. 1612 Referred in House (RFH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1612


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 16, 2011

  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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                                 AN ACT


 
 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.

    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 or a 
        listed chemical intending, knowing, or having reasonable cause 
        to believe that such substance or chemical 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.''.

            Passed the Senate December 15, 2011.

            Attest:

                                                NANCY ERICKSON,

                                                             Secretary.