[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4984 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4984

To amend the Controlled Substances Act to require regulated persons to 
   identify tableting machines and encapsulating machines by serial 
                                number.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 1, 2024

 Mr. Cornyn (for himself, Mr. Coons, Mr. Moran, Ms. Klobuchar, and Ms. 
   Cantwell) 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 require regulated persons to 
   identify tableting machines and encapsulating machines by serial 
                                number.

    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 ``Fight Illicit Pill Presses Act''.

SEC. 2. REGULATION OF CERTAIN MACHINES.

    (a) Regulation.--
            (1) In general.--Section 310(a) of the Controlled 
        Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 830(a)) is amended by adding at the 
        end the following:
    ``(4) Each regulated person who manufactures, distributes, 
delivers, sells, imports, or exports a tableting machine or an 
encapsulating machine shall identify the tableting machine or 
encapsulating machine by means of a serial number that is engraved, 
cast, or otherwise permanently affixed to a nonremovable part of the 
tableting machine or encapsulating machine.''.
            (2) Regulations.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
        enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall promulgate 
        regulations carrying out the amendments made by paragraph (1).
            (3) Effective date.--The amendments made by paragraph (1) 
        shall apply only to any tableting machine or encapsulating 
        machine manufactured, distributed, delivered, sold, imported, 
        or exported after the effective date of the regulations 
        promulgated under paragraph (2).
    (b) Prohibited Acts.--Section 403(a) of the Controlled Substances 
Act (21 U.S.C. 843(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (8), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (9), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(10) to remove, alter, or obliterate any serial number 
        affixed to a tableting machine or encapsulating machine; or
            ``(11) to transport, ship, receive, or possess any 
        tableting machine or encapsulating machine that is required to 
        have a serial number, knowing that the serial number has been 
        removed, altered, or obliterated.''.
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