[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 198 (Monday, November 15, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S8105]
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SA 4589. Mr. WHITEHOUSE submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be
proposed to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal
year 2022 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of
Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year,
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:
At the appropriate place in title X, insert the following:
SEC. ___. GOLD ACT.
(a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the
``Guarantee Oversight and Litigation on Doping Act'' or the
``GOLD Act''.
(b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) the punishment of Russia for persistent decades-long
state-run doping fraud by the international sport governance
structure has been insufficient and Russia's competing status
as ``ROC'' at Tokyo 2020 demonstrates to authoritarian states
around the world that systematic doping will be tolerated;
and
(2) aggressive enforcement of the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping
Act of 2019 (21 U.S.C. 2401 et seq.) can create the deterrent
required to curb doping fraud as the Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act of 1977 (15 U.S.C. 78dd-1 et seq.) curbed
foreign bribery and the Department of Justice and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation should prioritize enforcement of the
Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act of 2019 (21 U.S.C. 2401 et seq.).
(c) Predicate Offenses.--Part I of title 18, United States
Code, is amended--
(1) in section 1956(c)(7)(D)--
(A) by striking ``or section 104(a)'' and inserting
``section 104(a)''; and
(B) by inserting after ``North Korea)'' the following: ``,
or section 3 of the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act of 2019 (21
U.S.C. 2402) (relating to prohibited activities with respect
to major international doping fraud conspiracies)''; and
(2) in section 1961(1)--
(A) by striking ``or (G) any act'' and inserting ``(G) any
act''; and
(B) by inserting after ``section 2332(b)(g)(5)(B)'' the
following: ``, or (H) any act that is indictable under
section 3 of the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act of 2019 (21
U.S.C. 2402)''.
(d) Limitation.--An athlete (as defined in section 2 of the
Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act of 2019 (21 U.S.C. 2401)) may not
be prosecuted for any offense for which a violation of
section 3 of the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act of 2019 (21
U.S.C. 2402) was the predicate offense, including under
section 371, 1952, 1956, or 1957 or chapter 96 of title 18,
United States Code.
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