S.Amdt. 4469Senate117th Congress (2021-2023)2nd degree
S.Amdt. 4469
Sponsored by
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
Submitted November 4, 2021
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November 4, 2021
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SA 4469. Mr. WHITEHOUSE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: At the appropriate place in title X, insert the following: SEC. ___. GOLD ACT. (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the ``Guarantee Oversight and Litigation on Doping Act'' or the ``GOLD Act''. (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that-- (1) the punishment of Russia for persistent decades-long state-run doping fraud by the international sport governance structure has been insufficient and Russia's competing status as ``ROC'' at Tokyo 2020 demonstrates to authoritarian states around the world that systematic doping will be tolerated; and (2) aggressive enforcement of the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act of 2019 (21 U.S.C. 2401 et seq.) can create the deterrent required to curb doping fraud as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (15 U.S.C. 78dd-1 et seq.) curbed foreign bribery and the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation should prioritize enforcement of the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act of 2019 (21 U.S.C. 2401 et seq.). (c) Predicate Offenses.--Part I of title 18, United States Code, is amended-- (1) in section 1956(c)(7)(D)-- (A) by striking ``or section 104(a)'' and inserting ``section 104(a)''; and (B) by inserting after ``North Korea)'' the following: ``, or section 3 of the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act of 2019 (21 U.S.C. 2402) (relating to prohibited activities with respect to major international doping fraud conspiracies)''; and (2) in section 1961(1)-- (A) by striking ``or (G) any act'' and inserting ``(G) any act''; and (B) by inserting after ``section 2332(b)(g)(5)(B)'' the following: ``, or (H) any act that is indictable under section 3 of the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act of 2019 (21 U.S.C. 2402)''. (d) Limitation.--An athlete (as defined in section 2 of the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act of 2019 (21 U.S.C. 2401)) may not be prosecuted under section 1956 or chapter 96 of title 18, United States Code, for any offense for which a violation of section 3 of the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act of 2019 was the predicate offense. ______