Title: SNIFF Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Search Now, Inspect For Fentanyl Act of 2019 or the SNIFF Act
This bill requires the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to enter into an agreement with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to train USPS employees to identify illicit packages.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1373 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1373

To require the United States Postal Service to enter into an agreement 
   with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to train employees of the 
              Postal Service to identify illicit packages.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 8, 2019

  Mr. Cassidy (for himself and Ms. Baldwin) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland 
                   Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the United States Postal Service to enter into an agreement 
   with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to train employees of the 
              Postal Service to identify illicit packages.

    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 ``Search Now, Inspect For Fentanyl Act 
of 2019'' or the ``SNIFF Act''.

SEC. 2. TRAINING UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE EMPLOYEES TO IDENTIFY 
              ILLICIT PACKAGES.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 4 of title 39, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 417. Training employees to identify illicit packages
    ``(a) Definitions.--In this section--
            ``(1) the term `covered package' means a package that--
                    ``(A) originated outside the United States; and
                    ``(B) is addressed to a location within the United 
                States; and
            ``(2) the term `United States' includes any territory or 
        possession of the United States.
    ``(b) Training.--The Postal Service shall enter into an agreement 
with the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection under which 
U.S. Customs and Border Protection provides enhanced training to each 
employee of the Postal Service who works at an international service 
center that processes inbound international mail to enable the employee 
to--
            ``(1) identify covered packages in which the employee may 
        have reasonable cause to suspect there is merchandise that was 
        imported contrary to law, including matter that is nonmailable 
        under section 3001; and
            ``(2) alert U.S. Customs and Border Protection to each 
        covered package identified under paragraph (1) so that an 
        employee of U.S. Customs and Border Protection may search the 
        covered package.''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--The table of sections for 
chapter 4 of title 39, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following:

``417. Training employees to identify illicit packages.''.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to U.S. Customs and Border Protection such sums as may be 
necessary to provide the training described in section 417(b) of title 
39, United States Code, as added by subsection (a).
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