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Fentanyl is a WMD Act

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Introduced:
Jan 3, 2025
Policy Area:
Emergency Management

Bill Statistics

4
Actions
9
Cosponsors
1
Summaries
4
Subjects
1
Text Versions
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Latest Action

Jan 3, 2025
Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology.

Summaries (1)

Introduced in House - Jan 3, 2025 00
<p><strong>Fentanyl is a WMD Act</strong></p><p>This bill requires the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office of the Department of Homeland Security to treat illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.</p>

Actions (4)

Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology.
Type: Committee | Source: House committee actions | Code: H11000
Jan 3, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
Type: IntroReferral | Source: House floor actions | Code: H11100
Jan 3, 2025
Introduced in House
Type: IntroReferral | Source: Library of Congress | Code: Intro-H
Jan 3, 2025
Introduced in House
Type: IntroReferral | Source: Library of Congress | Code: 1000
Jan 3, 2025

Subjects (4)

Chemical and biological weapons Drug, alcohol, tobacco use Emergency Management (Policy Area) Law enforcement administration and funding

Text Versions (1)

Introduced in House

Jan 3, 2025

Full Bill Text

Length: 1,466 characters Version: Introduced in House Version Date: Jan 3, 2025 Last Updated: Nov 11, 2025 6:21 AM
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 128 Introduced in House

(IH) ]

<DOC>

119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 128

To require the Assistant Secretary for the Countering Weapons of Mass
Destruction Office of the Department of Homeland Security to treat
illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, and for other
purposes.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 3, 2025

Ms. Boebert introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Homeland Security

_______________________________________________________________________

A BILL

To require the Assistant Secretary for the Countering Weapons of Mass
Destruction Office of the Department of Homeland Security to treat
illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, and for other
purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1.

This Act may be cited as the ``Fentanyl is a WMD Act''.
SEC. 2.

The Assistant Secretary for the Countering Weapons of Mass
Destruction Office of the Department of Homeland Security shall treat
illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction for purposes of title
XIX of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 590 et seq.).
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