Official Summaries

Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl Analogues Act

This bill permanently places fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. A schedule I controlled substance is a drug, substance, or chemical that has a high potential for abuse; has no currently accepted medical value; and is subject to regulatory controls and administrative, civil, and criminal penalties under the Controlled Substances Act.

Fentanyl-related substances are currently regulated under schedule I through a temporary order issued by the Drug Enforcement Administration. The temporary order expires on March 31, 2025.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 165 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 165

    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

                            January 21, 2025

   Mr. Johnson (for himself, Mr. Ricketts, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Risch, Mr. 
 Banks, Mr. Cruz, and Mrs. Hyde-Smith) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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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.

    (a) In General.--Schedule I of section 202(c) of the Controlled 
Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812(c)) is amended by adding at the end 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, including their 
isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, esters, and 
ethers, whenever the existence of such isomers, esters, ethers, and 
salts is possible within the specific chemical designation.
    ``(2) In paragraph (1), the term `fentanyl-related substances' 
includes any substance that is structurally related to fentanyl by 1 or 
more of the following modifications:
            ``(A) By replacement of the phenyl portion of the phenethyl 
        group by any monocycle, whether or not further substituted in 
        or on the monocycle.
            ``(B) By substitution in or on the phenethyl group with 
        alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxyl, hydroxyl, halo, haloalkyl, amino, or 
        nitro groups.
            ``(C) By substitution in or on the piperidine ring with 
        alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxyl, ester, ether, hydroxyl, halo, 
        haloalkyl, amino, or nitro groups.
            ``(D) By replacement of the aniline ring with any aromatic 
        monocycle whether or not further substituted in or on the 
        aromatic monocycle.
            ``(E) By replacement of the N-propionyl group by another 
        acyl group.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--This Act shall take effect 1 day after the 
date of enactment of this Act.
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