[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1563 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1563

To amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify that the possession, 
  sale, purchase, importation, exportation, or transportation of drug 
 testing equipment that tests for the presence of fentanyl or xylazine 
                            is not unlawful.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 25, 2025

  Ms. Crockett (for herself and Mr. Gooden) introduced the following 
  bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in 
 addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify that the possession, 
  sale, purchase, importation, exportation, or transportation of drug 
 testing equipment that tests for the presence of fentanyl or xylazine 
                            is not unlawful.

    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 ``Safeguarding Testing and Overdose 
Prevention Against Fentanyl and Xylazine Act'' or the ``STOP Fentanyl 
and Xylazine Act''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION REGARDING THE TREATMENT OF EQUIPMENT THAT 
              INDICATES THE PRESENCE OF FENTANYL OR XYLAZINE IN A 
              COMPOUND.

    Section 422 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 863) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Clarification.--This section does not apply to the 
possession, sale, purchase, importation, exportation, or transportation 
of equipment for which the intended use is to indicate the presence of 
fentanyl or xylazine in a compound.''.
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