Drug Trafficking Safe Harbor Elimination Act of 2011

Drug Trafficking Safe Harbor Elimination Act of 2011 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to provide that anyone within the United States who enters into a conspiracy to possess or traffic in controlled substances outside the United States, or who aids or abets others in such conduct, shall be subject to the same penalties that would apply to such conduct if it were to occur within the United States.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1672 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1672

  To amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify that persons who 
  enter into a conspiracy within the United States to traffic illegal 
 controlled substances outside the United States, or engage in conduct 
 within the United States to aid or abet drug trafficking outside the 
 United States, may be criminally prosecuted in the United States, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 6, 2011

  Mr. Conrad (for himself and Mr. Sessions) introduced the following 
    bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify that persons who 
  enter into a conspiracy within the United States to traffic illegal 
 controlled substances outside the United States, or engage in conduct 
 within the United States to aid or abet drug trafficking outside the 
 United States, may be criminally prosecuted in the United States, 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 ``Drug Trafficking Safe Harbor 
Elimination Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT TO CLARIFY 
              CONSPIRACIES CONDUCTED WITHIN THE UNITED STATES MAY BE 
              CRIMINALLY PROSECUTED IN THE UNITED STATES.

    Section 406 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 846) is 
amended by--
            (1) inserting ``(a)'' before ``Any''; and
            (2) inserting at the end the following:
    ``(b)(1) There is jurisdiction of conduct described in paragraph 
(2) and any person within the United States that commits such conduct 
shall be subject to the same penalties that would apply to the 
activities described in paragraph (2) if the activities were to occur 
in the United States.
    ``(2) Conduct described in this paragraph is conduct in which a 
person within the United States conspires with, or aids or abets, 1 or 
more persons, without regard to where such other persons are located, 
to engage in activities at any place outside the United States that 
would constitute a violation of this title (except for a violation of 
section 404) if committed within the United States.''.
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