[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5773 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5773

To amend title 18, United States Code, to include certain insular areas 
  of the United States in the definition of State for the purposes of 
   chapter 114, relating to trafficking in contraband cigarettes and 
                           smokeless tobacco.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 13, 2016

Mr. Sablan (for himself, Ms. Bordallo, and Ms. Plaskett) 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 include certain insular areas 
  of the United States in the definition of State for the purposes of 
   chapter 114, relating to trafficking in contraband cigarettes and 
                           smokeless tobacco.

    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 ``Stop Tobacco Smuggling in the 
Insular Areas Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. CERTAIN INSULAR AREAS OF THE UNITED STATES INCLUDED IN THE 
              DEFINITION OF STATE FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE PROHIBITION 
              AGAINST TRAFFICKING IN CONTRABAND CIGARETTES AND 
              SMOKELESS TOBACCO.

    Paragraph (4) of section 2341 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ``or the Virgin Islands'' and inserting ``the 
Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern 
Mariana Islands, or Guam''.
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