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H.R. 27119th Congress
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The HALT Fentanyl Act permanently places all fentanyl-related substances in Schedule I and aligns their trafficking penalties with fentanyl itself.
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The HALT Fentanyl Act makes permanent a previously temporary policy placing all "fentanyl-related substances" into Schedule I, the strictest drug category. It broadly defines these substances by chemical similarity to fentanyl so new variants are automatically covered without new legislation. It also streamlines research registration for scientists studying Schedule I drugs and updates penalty laws so trafficking fentanyl analogues carries the same penalties as trafficking fentanyl.
Affects medical and scientific researchers studying these chemicals, plus law enforcement, prosecutors, and individuals involved in manufacturing, distributing, or trafficking fentanyl analogues.
Broader, permanent scheduling could affect research access and how new substances are prosecuted and sentenced, according to concerns critics have previously raised.
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Right now: it passed the House and now goes to the Senate. If the Senate changes it, it goes back to the House before reaching the President.
Latest action: — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.