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The bill would also raise penalties for failing to report defects.

A month ago, the Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, introduced a Republican package of bills to raise penalties for insurance fraud.

Even so, experts said that the efforts by the European Commission to raise penalties to ever-higher levels showed the limits of their enforcement abilities.

He also proposed a second bill that would raise penalties for retailers who evade tobacco taxes by selling smuggled cigarettes, prohibit them from redeeming coupons and require them to sell cheap cigars and cigarillos in packs of at least four.

Eric H. Jaso, a Justice Department official who is a nonvoting member of the commission, said that the commission had the authority from Congress to "raise penalties across the board".

Seeking to combat youth smoking — Mr. Obama noted that an additional 1,000 or so Americans under the age of 18 become regular smokers each day — the legislation will quickly ban most flavoring in tobacco and raise penalties for sales of tobacco to under-age buyers.

It expanded the definition of a sex offender and raised penalties for violating registry requirements.

The officials are also considering raising penalties for marijuana traffickers and producers.

Gov. James E. McGreevey signed a bill yesterday that sharply raises penalties against drivers who fall asleep at the wheel and cause fatal accidents.

At the prodding of the DOJ, the United States Sentencing Commission has raised penalties for corporate fraud twice, in January and April 2003, nearly doubling the base penalty for some crimes.

Because judges tend to have a strong sense of the relative seriousness of offences, and sentence according to this framework, the act had the effect of raising penalties all round.