[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 883 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 883

To authorize the Attorney General to reschedule certain drugs that pose 
      an imminent danger to public safety, and to provide for the 
rescheduling of the date-rape drug and the classification of a certain 
                             ``club'' drug.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 27, 1999

   Mr. Biden introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the Attorney General to reschedule certain drugs that pose 
      an imminent danger to public safety, and to provide for the 
rescheduling of the date-rape drug and the classification of a certain 
                             ``club'' drug.

    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 ``New Drugs of the 1990's Control 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ATTORNEY GENERAL AUTHORITY TO RESCHEDULE CERTAIN DRUGS POSING 
              IMMINENT DANGER TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

    Section 201(h) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 811(h)) 
is amended--
            (1) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following: 
        ``(1) If the Attorney General determines that the scheduling of 
        a substance, or the rescheduling of a scheduled substance, on a 
        temporary basis is necessary to avoid an imminent hazard to the 
        public safety, the Attorney General may, by order and without 
        regard to the requirements of subsection (b) relating to the 
        Secretary of Health and Human Services, schedule the 
        substance--
            ``(A) in schedule I if no exemption or approval is in 
        effect for the substance under section 355; or
            ``(B) in schedule II if the substance is not listed in 
        schedule I;''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) by inserting ``or rescheduling'' after 
                ``scheduling'' each place it appears; and
                    (B) by striking ``for up to six months'' and 
                inserting ``until a final order becomes effective''.

SEC. 3. RESCHEDULING OF DATE-RAPE DRUG.

    Notwithstanding section 201 or subsection (a) or (b) of section 202 
of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 811; 812(a); 812(b)) 
respecting the scheduling of controlled substances, the Attorney 
General shall, by order, transfer flunitrazepam from schedule IV of 
such Act to schedule I of such Act.

SEC. 4. CLASSIFICATION OF THE ``CLUB'' DRUG ``SPECIAL K''.

    Notwithstanding section 201 or subsection (a) or (b) of section 202 
of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 811; 812(a); 812(b)) 
respecting the scheduling of controlled substances, the Attorney 
General shall, by order, add ketamine hydrochloride to schedule III of 
such Act.
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