[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 449 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 449


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 13, 2018

     Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To require the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service to submit 
    to Congress a report on the health effects of new psychoactive 
              substances (including synthetic drugs) use.

    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 ``Synthetic Drug Awareness Act of 
2018''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON EFFECTS ON PUBLIC HEALTH OF SYNTHETIC DRUG USE.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 3 years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service 
shall submit to Congress a report on the health effects of new 
psychoactive substances (including synthetic drugs) used since January 
2010 by persons who are at least 12 years of age but no more than 18 
years of age.
    (b) New Psychoactive Substance Defined.--For purposes of subsection 
(a), the term ``new psychoactive substance'' means a controlled 
substance analogue (as defined in section 102(32) of the Controlled 
Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802(32)).

            Passed the House of Representatives June 12, 2018.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.