To amend the Webb-Kenyon Act to allow any State, territory, or possession of the United States to bring an action in Federal court to enjoin violations of that Act or to enforce the laws of such State, territory, or possession with respect to such violations.

Amends the Webb-Kenyon Act and the Liquor Law Repeal and Enforcement Act to allow any State, the District of Columbia, or a U.S. territory or possession to bring an action in U.S. district court to enjoin the shipment or transportation of liquor in violation of such Act, or to enforce their laws with respect to such transportation.

[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
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[H.R. 1063 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1063

    To amend the Webb-Kenyon Act to allow any State, territory, or 
possession of the United States to bring an action in Federal court to 
  enjoin violations of that Act or to enforce the laws of such State, 
       territory, or possession with respect to such violations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 13, 1997

 Mr. Ehrlich introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Webb-Kenyon Act to allow any State, territory, or 
possession of the United States to bring an action in Federal court to 
  enjoin violations of that Act or to enforce the laws of such State, 
       territory, or possession with respect to such violations.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of March 
1, 1913 (commonly referred to as the ``Webb-Kenyon Act''), and section 
202(b) of the Liquor Law Repeal and Enforcement Act (27 U.S.C. 122) are 
amended by adding at the end the following: ``Any State, the District 
of Columbia, any territory of the United States, or any place 
noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction of the United States 
may bring an action in the appropriate United States district court, or 
in the case of a territory or place outside the United States, in an 
appropriate court of Federal jurisdiction, to enjoin the shipment or 
transportation of liquor in violation of this section or to enforce the 
laws of such State, the District of Columbia, such territory, or such 
place, as the case may be, with respect to such shipment or 
transportation.''.
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