[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4761 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]
H.R.4761
One Hundred Sixteenth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday,
the third day of January, two thousand and twenty
An Act
To ensure U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, agents, and other
personnel have adequate synthetic opioid detection equipment, that the
Department of Homeland Security has a process to update synthetic opioid
detection capability, 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 ``DHS Opioid Detection Resilience Act
of 2019''.
SEC. 2. STRATEGY TO ENSURE DETECTION OF ALL OPIOID PURITY LEVELS AT
PORTS OF ENTRY.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this
section, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
shall--
(1) implement a strategy to ensure deployed chemical screening
devices are able to identify in an operational environment
narcotics at purity levels less than or equal to 10 percent, or
provide ports of entry with an alternate method for identifying
narcotics at lower purity levels; and
(2) require testing of any new chemical screening devices to
understand the abilities and limitations of such devices relating
to identifying narcotics at various purity levels before CBP
commits to the acquisition of such devices.
SEC. 3. PLAN TO ENSURE OPIOID DETECTION EQUIPMENT RESILIENCY.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this
section, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall implement a plan for
the long-term development of a centralized spectral database for
chemical screening devices. Such plan shall address the following:
(1) How newly identified spectra will be collected, stored, and
distributed to such devices in their operational environment,
including at ports of entry.
(2) Identification of parties responsible for updates and
maintenance of such database.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.