[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3356 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3356

 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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            August 21, 2018

    Ms. Hassan (for herself, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Jones, and Mr. Young) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
          Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
 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))).
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