Respect States' and Citizens' Rights Act of 2012

Respect States' and Citizens' Rights Act of 2012 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to provide that, in the case of any state law that pertains to marihuana, no provision of such Act shall be construed as indicating congressional intent to: (1) occupy the field in which that provision operates, including criminal penalties, to the exclusion of state law on the same subject matter; or (2) preempt any such state law.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6606 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6606

  To amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide that Federal law 
                      shall not preempt State law.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 27, 2012

Ms. DeGette (for herself, Mr. Coffman of Colorado, Mr. Paul, Mr. Frank 
of Massachusetts, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Farr, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. 
  Polis, Mr. Cohen, and Mr. Grijalva) 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 Act to provide that Federal law 
                      shall not preempt State law.

    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 ``Respect States' and Citizens' Rights 
Act of 2012''.

SEC. 2. IN GENERAL.

    Section 708 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 903) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``No provision'' and inserting ``(a) In 
        General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), no provision''; 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) Special Rule Regarding State Marihuana Laws.--In the case of 
any State law that pertains to marihuana, no provision of this title 
shall be construed as indicating an intent on the part of the Congress 
to occupy the field in which that provision operates, including 
criminal penalties, to the exclusion of State law on the same subject 
matter, nor shall any provision of this title be construed as 
preempting any such State law.''.
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