S.Amdt. 4704

SA 4704. Mrs. FISCHER (for herself and Mr. Grassley) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 4685 proposed by Mr.
McConnell (for Mr. Shelby (for himself and Ms. Mikulski)) to the bill
H.R. 2578, making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and
Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2016, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on
the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title II, insert the following:
Sec. __.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available for the immediate Office of the Deputy Attorney
General under the heading ``salaries and expenses'' under the
heading ``General Administration'' under this title may be
obligated or expended until the date on which the Deputy
Attorney General submits to Congress a plan for the
Department of Justice to monitor the effects of the licensing
of the cultivation, processing, distribution, and retail sale
of marijuana or marijuana products under State law on the
marijuana enforcement policies of the Federal Government,
including preventing the distribution of marijuana to minors,
preventing the diversion of marijuana to States where it
remains illegal under State law, and preventing the
exacerbation of public health consequences associated with
marijuana use, in accordance with the 2013 marijuana
enforcement policy guidance of the Department of Justice,
which shall include--
(1) a description of the various data the Deputy Attorney
General will use to monitor such effects and the limitations
of this data;
(2) a description of how the Deputy Attorney General will
use the information sources in its monitoring efforts to help
inform decisions on whether States are effectively protecting
the marijuana enforcement priorities of the Federal
Government, including the use, if any, of pre-established
metrics; and
(3) a description of how the Deputy Attorney General will
decide whether a State's failure to effectively protect these
priorities necessitates Federal action to challenge a State's
regulatory system.
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