119-hr1064

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1064 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 1064

 To amend the Controlled Substances Act to list fentanyl-related 
 substances as schedule I controlled substances.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 February 6, 2025

Mr. Fitzgerald introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
 the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
 Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
 within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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 A BILL

 To amend the Controlled Substances Act to list fentanyl-related 
 substances as schedule I controlled substances.

 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 ``Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl 
Analogues Act''.

SEC. 2. ARCHIE BADURA MEMORIAL FENTANYL RELATED SUBSTANCE SCHEDULING.

 

Section 202
            (c) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812
            (c) ) 
is amended by adding at the end of schedule I the following:
 ``

    (e)

    (1) Unless specifically exempted or unless listed in another 
schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which 
contains any quantity of fentanyl-related substances, or which contains 
their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers whenever the existence of 
such salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible within the 
specific chemical designation.
 ``

    (2) In paragraph

    (1) , the term `fentanyl-related substances' 
includes any substance that is structurally related to fentanyl by one 
or more of the following modifications:
 ``
        (A) By replacement of the phenyl portion of the phenethyl 
 group by any monocycle, whether or not further substituted in 
 or on the monocycle.
 ``
        (B) By substitution in or on the phenethyl group with 
 alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxy, hydroxy, halo, haloalkyl, amino or 
 nitro groups.
 ``
            (C) By substitution in or on the piperidine ring with 
 alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxy, ester, ether, hydroxy, halo, haloalkyl, 
 amino or nitro groups.
 ``
            (D) By replacement of the aniline ring with any aromatic 
 monocycle whether or not further substituted in or on the 
 aromatic monocycle.
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        (E) By replacement of the N-propionyl group by another 
 acyl group.''.

SEC. 3. PENALTIES.

 A fentanyl-related substance shall be treated as an analogue of N-
phenyl-N-[1-(2-phenylethyl)-4-piperidinyl] propanamide under 

section 401

    (b)

    (1) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 841

    (b)

    (1) ) and 

section 1010

    (b) of the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act (21 
U.S.C. 960

    (b) ) without requiring proof that a fentanyl-related 
substance meets the definition of a controlled substance analogue under 

section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802).

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

 This Act shall take effect one day after the date of enactment of 
this Act.
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