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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that illicit fentanyl-related substances are a weapon of mass destruction and should be classified as such.

118th Congress

Emergency Management

In Committee

Legislative Progress

✓

Introduced

Committee

Floor Vote

Other Chamber

Enacted

Introduced

January 17, 2023

Latest Action

January 27, 2023

Primary Sponsor

Neal P. DunnRepublican(FL)

Momentum (last 30 days)

score

0 actions · 0 new cosponsors · 0 votes

Speed vs cohort

91pct

10d open

vs 1,627 other HRES bills in the 118th — cohort avg 7d

Summary

This resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that (1) the President should classify synthetic illicit fentanyl-related substances as weapons of mass destruction; and (2) illicit fentanyl, and illicit fentanyl-related substances, should be permanently placed in schedule I (i.e., as drugs, substances, or chemicals with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse).

Subjects (4)

Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Drug, alcohol, tobacco use

Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Subversive activities

Actions (3)

January 27, 2023

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

January 17, 2023

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

January 17, 2023

Introduced in House

Congress.gov source codes: 1000, Intro-H