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“TEXT OF AMENDMENTS” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Justice was published in the Senate section on pages S8689 on Dec. 15, 2011.
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TEXT OF AMENDMENTS
SA 1464. Mr. DURBIN (for Mrs. Feinstein (for herself and Mr. Grassley)) proposed an amendment to the bill S. 1612, to provide the Department of Justice with additional tools to target extraterritorial drug trafficking activity; as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
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.''.
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