[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4747 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4747

To amend the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to prevent the 
  use of Indian reservations located on the United States borders to 
   facilitate cross-border drug trafficking, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 2010

  Mr. Owens introduced the following bill; which was 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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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to prevent the 
  use of Indian reservations located on the United States borders to 
   facilitate cross-border drug trafficking, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Cross Border Reservation Drug 
Trafficking Sentence Enhancement Act of 2010''.

SEC. 2. SENTENCING ENHANCEMENT FOR THE USE OF A BORDER INDIAN 
              RESERVATIONS TO FACILITATE CROSS-BORDER DRUG TRAFFICKING.

    Section 1010(b) of the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act 
(21 U.S.C. 960(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(8)(A) Whoever during and in relation to a violation of 
        subsection (a) enters, leaves, or is within a border Indian 
        reservation, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be fined 
        under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not more than 
        10 years, or both. Any term of imprisonment imposed under this 
        paragraph shall be served consecutively to any term imposed for 
        the violation of subsection (a).
            ``(B) In this paragraph, the term `border Indian 
        reservation' means a Federal or State Indian reservation that 
        borders or traverses any portion of a United States 
        international border.''.
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