To amend the Anti-Smuggling Act to subject vehicles, other conveyances, and instruments of international traffic to seizure and forfeiture for smuggling, and for other purposes.

Amends the Anti-Smuggling Act of 1935 to subject to seizure and forfeiture any vehicles, other conveyances, or instruments of international traffic employed to defraud U.S. revenue or to smuggle merchandise into the United States.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3033 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3033

To amend the Anti-Smuggling Act to subject vehicles, other conveyances, 
and instruments of international traffic to seizure and forfeiture for 
                   smuggling, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 22, 2011

 Mr. Reyes (for himself and Mr. McCaul) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Anti-Smuggling Act to subject vehicles, other conveyances, 
and instruments of international traffic to seizure and forfeiture for 
                   smuggling, 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. VEHICLES, OTHER CONVEYANCES, AND INSTRUMENTS OF 
              INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC SUBJECT TO SEIZURE AND FORFEITURE 
              FOR SMUGGLING.

    Section 3 of the Anti-Smuggling Act (19 U.S.C. 1703; Public Law 74-
238) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by inserting ``, vehicle, other 
        conveyance, or instrument of international traffic'' after 
        ``vessel'' each place it appears;
            (2) in subsection (b), by inserting ``, vehicle, other 
        conveyance, or instrument of international traffic'' after 
        ``vessel'' each place it appears; and
            (3) by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:
    ``(c) For the purposes of this section, prima facie evidence that a 
vessel, vehicle, other conveyance, or instrument of international 
traffic is being, or has been, or is attempted to be employed in 
smuggling or to defraud the revenue of the United States shall be--
            ``(1) in the case of a vessel, the fact that such vessel 
        has become subject to pursuit as provided in section 581 of the 
        Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1581), or is a hovering vessel, 
        or that such vessel fails, at any place within the customs 
        waters of the United States or within a customs-enforcement 
        area, to display light as required by law; and
            ``(2) in the case of a vehicle, other conveyance, or 
        instrument of international traffic, the fact that such 
        vehicle, other conveyance, or instrument of international 
        traffic has any compartment or equipment that is built or 
        fitted out for smuggling.''.
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