tion with respect to the tobacco prod-
uct involved; or 
‘‘(iv) an officer, employee, or other 
agent of the United States or a State, or 
any department, agency, or instrumentality 
of the United States or a State (including 
any political subdivision of a State) having 
possession of such tobacco product in con-
nection with the performance of official du-
ties;’’. 
(2) Section 2345 of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘cigarette tax laws’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘tobacco tax 
laws’’, and 
(B) by striking ‘‘cigarettes’’ and inserting 
‘‘tobacco products’’. 
(b) UNLAWFUL ACTS.—Section 2342 of title 18, 
United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘§ 2342. Unlawful acts 
‘‘(a) It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly 
to ship, transport, receive, possess, sell, distribute, or pur-
chase contraband tobacco products. 
‘‘(b)(1) It shall be unlawful for any person know-
ingly—
‘‘(A) to make any false statement or represen-
tation with respect to the information required by 
this chapter to be kept in the records or reports of 
any person who ships, sells, or distributes (in a sin-
gle transaction or in a series of related transactions) 
any quantity of tobacco product in excess of the 
quantity specified in or pursuant to section 
2341(2)(A) with respect to such product, or 
‘‘(B) to fail to maintain records or reports, 
alter or obliterate required markings, or interfere 
with any inspection, required under this chapter, 
with respect to such quantity of tobacco product. 
‘‘(c) It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly 
to transport tobacco products under a false bill of lading 
or without any bill of lading.’’. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS RELATING TO REC-
ORDKEEPING.— 
(1) Subsections (a) and (b) of section 2343 of 
title 18, United States Code, are each amended by 
striking ‘‘any quantity of cigarettes in excess of 
60,000 in a single transaction’’ and inserting ‘‘(in a 
single transaction or in a series of related trans-
actions) any quantity of tobacco product in excess of 
the quantity specified in or pursuant to section 
2341(2)(A) with respect to such product’’.
(d) PENALTIES.—Section 2344 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b), by inserting ‘‘or (c)’’ after 
‘‘section 2342(b)’’; and 
(2) by striking subsection (c) and inserting the 
following new subsection: 
‘‘(c) Any contraband tobacco products involved in any 
violation of this chapter shall be subject to seizure and 
forfeiture, and all provisions of section 9703(o) of title 31, 
United States Code, shall, so far as applicable, extend to 
seizures and forfeitures under this chapter.’’. 
(e) JENKINS ACT AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) Section 4 of the Act of October 19, 1949 
(15 U.S.C. 378) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: ‘‘A State tobacco tax authority may 
commence a civil action to obtain appropriate relief 
with respect to a violation of this Act.’’. 
(2) Paragraph (2) of section 1 of such Act is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(2) The term ‘tobacco product’ has the mean-
ing given to such term by section 5702 of the Inter-
nal Revenue Code of 1986.’’. 
(3) Such Act is further amended by striking 
‘‘cigarette’’ and ‘‘cigarettes’’ each place either ap-