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authority, board, or bureau, or a corpora-
tion or other legal entity established and
subject to control by a State for the execu-
tion of a program of such State;
‘‘(ii) a juror;
‘‘(iii) any person acting or pretending
to act under color of official authority; and
‘‘(iv) any person who has been nomi-
nated, appointed, or selected to be an offi-
cial described in clause (i), (ii), or (iii) or
who has been officially informed that he or
she will be so nominated, appointed, or se-
lected; and
‘‘(B) in the case of an official of the
United States—
‘‘(i) an officer or employee or person
acting for or on behalf of the United
States, or any department, agency, or
branch of the United States Government in
any official function, under or by authority
of any such department, agency, or branch
of Government;
‘‘(ii) a juror;
‘‘(iii) any person acting or pretending
to act under color of official authority; and
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‘‘(iv) any person who has been nomi-
nated, appointed, or selected to be an offi-
cial described in clause (i), (ii), or (iii), or
has been officially informed that he or she
will be so nominated, appointed, or se-
lected;
‘‘(2) the term ‘person acting or pretending to
act under color of official authority’ means any per-
son who represents that he or she controls, is an
agent of, or otherwise acts on behalf of an official;
‘‘(3) the term ‘State’ means a State of the
United States, the District of Columbia, any com-
monwealth, territory, or possession of the United
States, and any political subdivision of such State,
District, commonwealth, territory, or possession; and
‘‘(4) the term ‘uses any facility in interstate or
foreign commerce’ includes the intrastate use of any
facility that may also be used in interstate or foreign
commerce.’’.
(b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—
(1) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 11
of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at
the end the following item:
‘‘226. Public corruption.’’.
(2) Section 1961(1) of title 18, United States Code,
is amended by inserting ‘‘section 226 (relating to public
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corruption),’’ after ‘‘section 224 (relating to sports brib-
ery),’’.
(3) Section 2516(1)(c) of title 18, United States
Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘section 226 (relating to
public corruption),’’ after ‘‘section 224 (bribery in sport-
ing contests),’’.
SEC. 902. INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1343 of title 18, United
States Code, is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘transmits or causes to be
transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television
communication in interstate or foreign commerce,
any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds’’ and
inserting ‘‘uses or causes to be used any facility in
interstate or foreign commerce (as defined in section
226(d)(5) of this title)’’; and
(2) by inserting ‘‘or attempting to do so’’ after
‘‘for the purpose of executing such scheme or arti-
fice’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—(1) The section
caption for section 1343 of title 18, United States Code,
is amended to read as follows:
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‘‘§ 1343. Fraud by use of facility in interstate com-
merce’’.
(2) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter
63 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking
the item relating to section 1343 and inserting the follow-
ing:
‘‘1343. Fraud by use of facility in interstate commerce.’’.
SEC. 903. NARCOTICS-RELATED PUBLIC CORRUPTION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 11 of title 18, United
States Code, is amended by inserting after section 219 the
following:
‘‘§ 220. Narcotics and public corruption
‘‘(a) OFFENSE BY PUBLIC OFFICIAL.—Any public of-
ficial who, in a circumstance described in subsection (c),
directly or indirectly, corruptly demands, seeks, receives,
accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value
personally or for any other person in return for—
‘‘(1) being influenced in the performance or
nonperformance of any official act; or
‘‘(2) being influenced to commit or to aid in
committing, or to collude in, or to allow or make op-
portunity for the commission of any offense against
the United States or any State;
shall be guilty of a class B felony.
‘‘(b) OFFENSE BY PERSON OTHER THAN A PUBLIC
OFFICIAL.—Any person who, in a circumstance described
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in subsection (c), directly or indirectly, corruptly gives, of-
fers, or promises anything of value to any public official,
or offers or promises any public official to give anything
of value to any other person, with the intent—
‘‘(1) to influence any official act;
‘‘(2) to influence the public official to commit
or aid in committing, or to collude in, or to allow or
make opportunity for the commission of any offense
against the United States or any State; or
‘‘(3) to influence the public official to do or to
omit to do any act in violation of such official’s law-
ful duty;
shall be guilty of a class B felony.
‘‘(c) CIRCUMSTANCES
IN
WHICH
OFFENSE
OC-
CURS.—The circumstances referred to in subsections (a)
and (b) are that the offense involves, is part of, or is in-
tended to further or to conceal the illegal possession, im-
portation, manufacture, transportation, or distribution of
any controlled substance or controlled substance analogue.
‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section—
‘‘(1) the terms ‘controlled substance’ and ‘con-
trolled substance analogue’ have the meanings given
those terms in section 102 of the Controlled Sub-
stances Act;