jiayi-li23/proxann_data huggingface dataset:
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2013-01-03 00:00:00

No More Tulias: Drug Law Enforcement Evidentiary Standards Improvement Act of 2013 - Prohibits a state from receiving for a fiscal year any drug control and system improvement (Byrne) grant funds under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, or any amount from any other law enforcement assistance program of the Department of Justice (DOJ), unless the state does not fund any antidrug task forces for that fiscal year or the state has in effect laws that ensure that: (1) a person is not convicted of a drug offense unless the facts that a drug offense was committed and that the person committed that offense are supported by evidence other than the eyewitness testimony of a law enforcement officer (officer) or individuals acting on an officer's behalf, and (2) an officer does not participate in a antidrug task force unless that officer's honesty and integrity is evaluated and found to be at an appropriately high level.

Requires states receiving federal funds under this Act to collect data on the racial distribution of drug charges, the nature of the criminal law specified in the charges, and the jurisdictions in which such charges are made.
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2013-01-18 00:00:00

Synthetic Cathinones Control Act of 2013 - Directs the Attorney General to issue a final order within 60 days of this Act's enactment that schedules specified synthetic drugs on schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.

 Amends the Controlled Substances Act to provide that Schedules I, II, III, IV, and V shall consist of the drugs and other substances that are set forth in the respective schedules in part 1308 of title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2013-02-05 00:00:00

Marijuana Tax Equity Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on: (1) the sale of marijuana by producers or importers of such drug equal to 50% of the sales price, and (2) each person who is engaged in a marijuana enterprise. Defines "marijuana enterprise" to mean a producer, importer, manufacturer, distributor, retailer or any person who transports, stores, displays, or otherwise participates in any business activity that handles marijuana or marijuana products.

Requires any person who engages in a marijuana enterprise to obtain a permit to engage in such business. Imposes civil and criminal penalties for violations of the requirements of this Act.
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2013-02-06 00:00:00

Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2013 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of "marihuana." Defines "industrial hemp" to mean the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant, whether growing or not, with a delta-nine tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis. Deems Cannabis sativa L. to meet that concentration limit if a person grows or processes it for purposes of making industrial hemp in accordance with state law.
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Health
Date: 2013-02-15 00:00:00

Methamphetamine Education, Treatment, and Hope Act of 2010 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment to collaborate with professionals in the addiction field and primary health care providers to raise awareness about how to: (1) recognize the signs of a substance abuse disorder; and (2) apply evidence-based practices for screening and treating individuals with, or at-risk for developing, an addiction.

Revises requirements governing a grant program for substance abuse residential treatment for pregnant and parenting women (currently, for postpartum women), to include treatment for addiction to methamphetamine, outpatient treatment services, and referrals for dental services.

Requires the Director to give grant priority to a program serving an area that: (1) is a rural area, an area with a shortage of mental health professionals, or an area with a shortage of family-based substance abuse treatment options; and (2) has high rates of addiction to methamphetamine or other drugs.

Revises requirements for biennial reports to Congress to require such reports to include: (1) data on the number of pregnant and parenting women in need of, but not receiving, treatment for substance abuse; and (2) data on recovery and relapse rates of women receiving treatment for substance abuse under the grant program.

Requires the Director to expand, intensify, and coordinate efforts to provide pregnant and parenting women treatment for addiction to methamphetamine or other drugs.

Requires the Director of the Office for Substance Abuse Prevention to: (1) maintain a clearinghouse that provides information and educational materials to employers and employees about comprehensive drug-free workplace programs and substance abuse prevention and treatment resources; and (2) support the involvement of youth in the development and implementation of prevention strategies focused on youth.
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2013-02-15 00:00:00

States' Medical Marijuana Property Rights Protection Act - Exempts real property from civil forfeiture under the Controlled Substances Act due to medical marijuana-related conduct that is authorized by state law.
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2013-03-05 00:00:00

Respect States' and Citizens' Rights Act of 2013 - 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.
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2013-03-20 00:00:00

Amends the Controlled Substances Act to remove dihydrocodeinone (hydrocodone) from classification as a schedule III controlled substance.

Directs the Attorney General to immediately allow manufacturers and distributors to store hydrocodone compound products in accordance with the physical security requirements for schedule III, IV, and V controlled substances for three years beginning on the date enactment of this Act.

Requires the Comptroller General to submit a report on the reclassification of hydrocodone products under this Act, including: (1) an assessment of the degree to which the reclassification of such products under this Act impacts the ability of patients with legitimate medical needs, particularly those in rural areas and nursing home facilities, to access adequate pain management; and (2) recommendations necessary to address any issues relating to patient access to adequate pain management.
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2013-04-12 00:00:00

Respect State Marijuana Laws Act of 2013 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to provide that provisions of such Act related to marihuana shall not apply to any person acting in compliance with state laws relating to the production, possession, distribution, dispensation, administration, or delivery of marihuana.
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Native Americans
Date: 2013-05-06 00:00:00

Protect our Native Women Act of 2013 - Amends the Indian Law Enforcement Reform Act to require each Assistant U.S. Attorney serving as tribal liaison for a district to serve as a domestic violence tribal liaison.

Requires domestic violence tribal liaisons to:

 encourage and assist in arrests and federal prosecutions for domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in Indian country; train law enforcement officers and others responsible for responding to crimes in Indian country; develop multidisciplinary teams to combat domestic and sexual violence against Indians; work with tribal justice officials and victims' advocates to address any backlog in the prosecution of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in Indian country; and develop working relationships and maintain communication with tribal leaders, tribal community and victims' advocates, and tribal justice officials to exchange information with tribal justice officials. Directs the Attorney General to appoint qualified tribal prosecutors and other qualified attorneys to assist in prosecuting federal offenses committed in the Indian country of at least ten federally recognized tribes. Gives a preference to those tribes that have the highest rates of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress on: (1) the prevalence of domestic violence and sexual assault in Indian country, (2) the efforts of federal law enforcement agencies to investigate those crimes, and (3) federal initiatives to help address and prevent such violence.
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2013-05-22 00:00:00

Transnational Drug Trafficking Act of 2013 - Amends the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to prohibit the manufacture or distribution of a controlled substance in schedule I or II, flunitrazepam, or a listed chemical by individuals having reasonable cause to believe that such substance or chemical will be unlawfully imported into the United States or into waters within 12 miles of the U.S. coast.

Prohibits the manufacture or distribution of a listed chemical: (1) intending or knowing that it will be used to manufacture a controlled substance; and (2) intending, knowing, or having reasonable cause to believe that the substance will be unlawfully imported into the United States.

Amends the federal criminal code to revise the prohibition against, and penalties for, intentionally trafficking in a counterfeit drug to apply to intentionally trafficking in a drug and knowingly using a counterfeit mark on or in connection with such drug.
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2013-06-04 00:00:00

Small Business Tax Equity Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt a trade or business that conducts marijuana sales in compliance with state law from the prohibition against allowing business-related tax credits or deductions for expenditures in connection with trafficking in controlled substances.
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2013-06-05 00:00:00

Amends the Controlled Substances Act to: (1) impose an additional term of up to ten years' imprisonment for cultivating or manufacturing controlled substances on federal property; (2) prohibit a person, while cultivating or manufacturing a controlled substance on federal property, from clear cutting timber or diverting, obstructing, or draining an aquifer, spring, stream, river or body of water; and (3) apply the prohibition against assembling, maintaining, or placing a boobytrap on federal property where a controlled substance is being manufactured to federal property where a controlled substance is being cultivated.

Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to amend the Federal Sentencing Guidelines to provide an additional penalty increase of two offense levels if the offense of manufacturing, distributing, or dispensing, or possessing with intent to manufacture, distribute, or dispense a controlled substance or a counterfeit substance: (1) includes the use of a poison, chemical, or other hazardous substance to cultivate or manufacture controlled substances on federal property; (2) creates a hazard to humans, wildlife, or domestic animals; (3) degrades or harms the environment or natural resources; (4) pollutes an aquifer, spring, stream, river, or body of water; (5) involves the diversion, redirection, obstruction, or draining of an aquifer, spring, stream, river, or body of water or the clear cut of timber while cultivating or manufacturing a controlled substance on federal property; or (6) involves the possession of a firearm while cultivating or manufacturing controlled substances on federal lands.
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2013-06-13 00:00:00

Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act of 2013 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to eliminate increased and mandatory minimum penalties for drug offenses involving mixtures or substances which contain cocaine base (i.e., crack cocaine).
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2013-09-12 00:00:00

Major Drug Trafficking Prosecution Act of 2013 - Requires the Attorney General's prior written approval for a federal prosecution of an offense under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) or the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act (CSIEA), or for any conspiracy to commit such an offense, where the offense involves the illegal distribution or possession of a controlled substance in an amount less than that specified as a minimum for an offense under CSA or, in the case of any substance containing cocaine or cocaine base, in an amount less than 500 grams.

Modifies CSA and CSIEA to delete specified mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment.
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2013-10-30 00:00:00

Smarter Sentencing Act of 2013 - Amends the federal criminal code to direct the court to impose a sentence for specified controlled substance offenses without regard to any statutory minimum sentence if the court finds that the criminal history category for the defendant is not higher than category two. (Currently, the court may disregard the statutory minimum if the defendant does not have more than one criminal history point.)

Authorizes a court that imposed a sentence for a crack cocaine possession or trafficking offense committed before August 3, 2010, on motion of the defendant, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons, the attorney for the government, or the court, to impose a reduced sentence as if provisions of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 were in effect at the time such offense was committed.

Amends the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act (CSIEA) to reduce mandatory minimum sentences for manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, possessing, importing, or exporting specified controlled substances.

Directs the Commission to review and amend its guidelines and policy statements applicable to persons convicted of such an offense under the CSA and CSIEA to ensure consistency with this Act and to consider specified factors, including: (1) its mandate to formulate guidelines to minimize the likelihood that the federal prison population will exceed federal prison capacity, (2) fiscal implications of changes, (3) relevant public safety concerns, (4) the intent of Congress that penalties for violent and serious drug traffickers who present public safety risks remain appropriately severe, and (5) the need to reduce and prevent racial disparities in sentencing.

Requires the Attorney General to report on how the reduced expenditures on federal corrections and cost savings resulting from this Act will be used to help reduce overcrowding, increase investment in law enforcement and crime prevention, and reduce recidivism.
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2014-02-11 00:00:00

Unmuzzle the Drug Czar Act of 2014 - Amends the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998 to repeal a provision requiring the Director of National Drug Control Policy to: (1) ensure that no federal funds appropriated to the Office of National Drug Control Policy are expended for any study or contract relating to the legalization (for a medical or any other use) of a substance listed in schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (which includes marijuana), and (2) oppose any attempt to legalize the use of any such substance that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved for use for medical purposes.
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2014-02-18 00:00:00

Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2013 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to require registrants to manufacture, distribute, or dispense controlled substances to obtain a criminal background check on, and perform drug testing on, each employee with access to facility areas where controlled substances are stored. Requires such background checks to be obtained when such an employee is hired and periodically thereafter, but not more frequently than every two years. Authorizes registration suspension or revocation and a $10,000 penalty for failing to comply with such requirements.

Requires the Attorney General, before revoking or suspending a registration under such Act, to: (1) provide the registrant notice of the grounds for doing so, and where such grounds consist of a legal violation, a specific citation to such law; (2) give the registrant an opportunity to submit a corrective action plan within a reasonable time period; and (3) determine whether, in light of the plan, revocation or suspension proceedings should be discontinued or deferred or additional changes need to be made in such plan.

Establishes the Combating Prescription Drug Abuse Working Group to: (1) report on federal initiatives to reduce prescription drug diversion and abuse, (2) identify gaps and opportunities to ensure the safe use of prescription drugs with the potential for diversion and abuse, (3) examine recommendations to transfer one or more controlled substances from schedule III to schedule II to evaluate the effectiveness of such a transfer in reducing diversion and abuse and any effect of such a transfer on access to prescription drugs for legitimate medical purposes, (4) make recommendations on specific ways to reduce the diversion and abuse of prescription drugs, and (5) report on its efforts to prevent or reduce prescription drug diversion and abuse to ensure that patients continue to have access to medications.
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Labor and employment
Date: 2014-03-26 00:00:00

Ready to Work Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor, not later than one year after enactment of this Act, to issue a final rule pursuant to the Social Security Act that allows a state to enact legislation to test an applicant for unemployment compensation for use of controlled substances as a condition for receiving such compensation, if that applicant is an individual for whom suitable work is only available in an occupation that regularly conducts drug testing.

Prescribes a special rule providing that, if the Secretary has not issued an interim final rule within 180 days after enactment of this Act, the final rule shall require the state unemployment compensation agency to determine whether an occupation regularly conducts drug testing.
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Health
Date: 2014-04-28 00:00:00

Legitimate Use of Medical Marijuana Act or the LUMMA - Transfers marijuana from schedule I to schedule II of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).

Provides that in a state in which marijuana may be prescribed for medical use under state law, no provision of the CSA or of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act shall prohibit or otherwise restrict: (1) the prescription of marijuana for medical use; (2) an authorized patient from obtaining, possessing, transporting, or using marijuana for that individual's medical use; (3) an individual from obtaining, possessing, transporting, or manufacturing marijuana pursuant to an authorization under state law; (4) a pharmacy or other entity authorized under state law to distribute medical marijuana to an authorized patient for medical use from obtaining, possessing, or distributing marijuana for that purpose; or (5) an entity authorized by such state from producing, processing, or distributing marijuana for  prescribed medical use.
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2014-04-28 00:00:00

Stop Meth Labs and Enhance Patient Access Act of 2014 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to authorize the Attorney General to exempt a scheduled listed chemical product from specified requirements regarding sales quantity, nonliquid forms, and retail transactions upon determining that it is not practical by processes known to be employed by clandestine laboratory operators to use the product in the illicit manufacture of methamphetamine (currently, upon determining that the product cannot be used in the illicit manufacture of methamphetamine).
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: International affairs
Date: 2014-05-09 00:00:00

Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission Act of 2014 - Establishes the Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission, which shall: (1) conduct a comprehensive review of U.S. foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere to reduce the illicit drug supply and drug abuse and reduce the damage associated with illicit drug markets and trafficking, and (2) identify policy and program options to improve existing international and domestic counternarcotics policy.

Terminates the Commission 60 days after submission of its report.
Topic: Law and Crime — Illegal Drugs
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2014-05-21 00:00:00

Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2014 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to define: (1) "factors as may be relevant to and consistent with the public health and safety," for purposes of the Attorney General's determination of whether registering an applicant to manufacture or distribute a controlled substance in schedule I or II is in the public interest, as factors that are relevant to and consistent with the findings of such Act; and (2) "imminent danger to the public health or safety," for purposes of the suspension of such a registration, to mean that in the absence of an immediate suspension order, controlled substances will continue to be intentionally diverted outside of legitimate distribution channels or distributed or dispensed outside the usual course of professional practices or in a manner that poses a present or foreseeable risk of serious adverse health consequences or death.

Requires an order to show cause as to why such a registration should not be denied, revoked, or suspended to: (1) contain a statement of the basis for the denial, revocation, or suspension, including specific citations to any laws or regulations alleged to be violated; (2) direct the applicant or registrant to appear before the Attorney General at a specific place and time within 30 days after receipt of the order; and (3) notify the applicant or registrant of the opportunity to submit a corrective action plan on or before such appearance. Requires the Attorney General, upon review of any such plan, to determine whether denial, revocation, or suspension proceedings should be discontinued or deferred for purposes of modifications to such plan. Makes such requirements inapplicable to the issuance of an immediate suspension order.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs (FDA) and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to submit a report identifying: (1) obstacles to legitimate patient access to controlled substances; (2) issues with diversion of controlled substances; and (3) how collaboration between federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies and the pharmaceutical industry can benefit patients and prevent diversion and abuse of controlled substances.