HR 3245 IH

To amend the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act regarding penalties for cocaine offenses, and for other purposes.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

July 16, 2009CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Mr. SCOTT of Virginia (for himself, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Ms. WATERS, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. NADLER of New York, Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California, Mr. PIERLUISI, Mr. WEINER, Mr. COHEN, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. PAUL, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Ms. NORTON, and Mr. QUIGLEY) 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 concernedCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

To amend the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act regarding penalties for cocaine offenses, and for other purposes.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act of 2009’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF INCREASED PENALTIES FOR COCAINE OFFENSES WHERE THE COCAINE INVOLVED IS COCAINE BASE.

(a) Controlled Substances Act- The following provisions of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.) are repealed:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(1) Clause (iii) of section 401(b)(1)(A).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(2) Clause (iii) of section 401(b)(1)(B).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(3) The sentence beginning ‘Notwithstanding the preceding sentence’ in section 404(a).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(b) Controlled Substances Import and Export Act- The following provisions of the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act (21 U.S.C. 951 et seq.) are repealed:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(1) Subparagraph (C) of section 1010(b)(1).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(2) Subparagraph (C) of section 1010(b)(2).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink