119-hr780

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 780 Introduced in House

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 780

 To authorize the court to make an advisory statement under certain 
 circumstances, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 January 28, 2025

 Mr. Issa (for himself, Mr. Kiley of California, and Mr. Obernolte) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 
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 authorize the court to make an advisory statement under certain 
 circumstances, 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. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Alexandra's Law Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ADVISORY STATEMENT.

 

Section 401 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 841) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
 ``
            (i) Advisory Statement.--
 ``

    (1) Conviction.--Any person who is convicted of, or 
 enters a plea of guilty or no contest, to an offense under this 
 section with respect to which death occurred, may be charged 
 with homicide.
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    (2) Court advising.--A court shall advise any person who 
 is convicted of, or enters a plea of guilty or no contest to, 
 an offense under this section involving N-phenyl-N-[1-(2-
 phenylethyl)-4-piperidinyl] propanamide, or an analogue 
 thereof, exchanged for anything of value, with respect to which 
 death occurred, of the following:
```You are hereby advised that all illicit drugs and counterfeit pills 
are dangerous to human life and become even deadlier when they are, 
sometimes unknowingly, mixed with substances such as fentanyl and 
analogues of fentanyl. People can and have died from these substances, 
even in very small doses. It is extremely dangerous and deadly to human 
life to sell or administer drugs, in any form, when not lawfully 
authorized to do so. If you do so in the future and a person dies as a 
result of that action, and you knew or should have known that the 
substance you provided contained fentanyl or a fentanyl analogue, you 
may be charged with an offense under 

section 1111 or 1112 of title 18, 
United States Code. This conviction will be considered by a judge or 
jury as to whether you knew or should have known that the substance you 
provided to the decedent contained fentanyl.'.
 ``

    (3) Evidence.--
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        (A) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph

    (4) , in the case of a defendant who is charged with an 
 offense under 

section 1111 of 1112 of title 18, United 
 States Code, with respect to a death involving N-
 phenyl-N-[1-(2-phenylethyl)-4-piperidinyl] propanamide 
 or an analogue thereof, exchanged for anything of 
 value, a previous conviction for, or a plea of guilty 
 or no contest to, an offense under this section 
 involving N-phenyl-N-[1-(2-phenylethyl)-4-piperidinyl] 
 propanamide, or an analogue thereof, in exchange for 
 anything of value, with respect to which death 
 occurred, may be used as evidence that the defendant 
 had knowledge that the substance provided to the 
 decedent contained N-phenyl-N-[1-(2-phenylethyl)-4-
 piperidinyl] propanamide or an analogue thereof.
 ``
        (B) Admission of state court acknowledgment.--Any 
 sworn statement used in State court that is 
 substantially similar to the statement in paragraph

    (2) shall be admissible in a Federal court.
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            (C) Admission of federal court acknowledgment.--
 Any sworn statement in paragraph

    (2) may be admissible 
 in a State court.
 ``

    (4) Exception.--Paragraph

    (3) shall not apply to the 
 prosecution of an individual who was a minor at the time at 
 which the individual committed the offense.''.
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