[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
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[S. 3148 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]

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                                                       Calendar No. 398
116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3148

    To amend the Controlled Substances Act to list fentanyl-related 
            substances as schedule I controlled substances.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 19, 2019

Mr. Johnson (for himself, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Cassidy, Mrs. Blackburn, Ms. 
   Ernst, Mr. Braun, Mr. Alexander, Mr. McConnell, and Mr. Lankford) 
      introduced the following bill; which was read the first time

                            January 3, 2020

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Controlled Substances Act to list fentanyl-related 
            substances as schedule I controlled substances.

    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 ``Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl 
Analogues Act''.

SEC. 2. FENTANYL-RELATED SUBSTANCES.

    Section 202(c) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812) is 
amended--
            (1) by adding at the end of subsection (b) of Schedule I 
        the following:
            ``(23) Isobutyryl fentanyl.
            ``(24) Para-Methoxybutyrylfentanyl.
            ``(25) Valeryl fentanyl.
            ``(26) Cyclopentyl fentanyl.
            ``(27) Para-Chloroisobutyryl fentanyl.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end of Schedule I the following:
    ``(e)(1) Unless specifically exempted or unless listed in another 
schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which 
contains any quantity of fentanyl-related substances, or which contains 
their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers whenever the existence of 
such salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible within the 
specific chemical designation.
    ``(2) In paragraph (1), the term `fentanyl-related substances' 
includes the following:
            ``(A) Any substance that is structurally related to 
        fentanyl by one or more of the following modifications:
                    ``(i) By replacement of the phenyl portion of the 
                phenethyl group by any monocycle, whether or not 
                further substituted in or on the monocycle.
                    ``(ii) By substitution in or on the phenethyl group 
                with alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxy, hydroxy, halo, haloalkyl, 
                amino or nitro groups.
                    ``(iii) By substitution in or on the piperidine 
                ring with alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxy, ester, ether, 
                hydroxy, halo, haloalkyl, amino or nitro groups.
                    ``(iv) By replacement of the aniline ring with any 
                aromatic monocycle whether or not further substituted 
                in or on the aromatic monocycle.
                    ``(v) By replacement of the N-propionyl group by 
                another acyl group.
            ``(B) 4'-Methyl acetyl fentanyl.
            ``(C) Crotonyl fentanyl.
            ``(D) 2'-Fluoro ortho-fluorofentanyl.
            ``(E) Ortho-Methyl acetylfentanyl.
            ``(F) Thiofuranyl fentanyl.
            ``(G) Ortho-Fluorobutyryl fentanyl.
            ``(H) Ortho-Fluoroacryl fentanyl.
            ``(I) Beta-Methyl fentanyl.
            ``(J) Phenyl fentanyl.
            ``(K) Para-Methylfentanyl.
            ``(L) Beta'-Phenyl fentanyl.
            ``(M) Benzodioxole fentanyl.''.
    This Act shall take effect one day after the date of enactment.
                                                       Calendar No. 398

116th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 3148

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                                 A BILL

    To amend the Controlled Substances Act to list fentanyl-related 
            substances as schedule I controlled substances.

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                            January 3, 2020

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar