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[displayText] => Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson without amendment. With written report No. 116-244.
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Passed House
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[description] => Passed House
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Passed Senate
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[actionDate] => 2020-12-07
[displayText] => Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S7243)
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[description] => Passed Senate
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To President
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[actionDate] => 2020-12-11
[displayText] => Presented to President.
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Became Law
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[displayText] => Became Public Law No: 116-254.
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[116th Congress Public Law 254]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[[Page 134 STAT. 1137]]
Public Law 116-254
116th Congress
An Act
To ensure U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, agents, and other
personnel have adequate synthetic opioid detection equipment, that the
Department of Homeland Security has a process to update synthetic opioid
detection capability, and for other purposes. <<NOTE: Dec. 23,
2020 - [H.R. 4761]>>
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: DHS Opioid
Detection Resilience Act of 2019. 6 USC 211 note.>>
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``DHS Opioid Detection Resilience Act
of 2019''.
SEC. 2. <<NOTE: Deadline.>> STRATEGY TO ENSURE DETECTION OF ALL
OPIOID PURITY LEVELS AT PORTS OF ENTRY.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this
section, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
shall--
(1) implement a strategy to ensure deployed chemical
screening devices are able to identify in an operational
environment narcotics at purity levels less than or equal to 10
percent, or provide ports of entry with an alternate method for
identifying narcotics at lower purity levels; and
(2) <<NOTE: Testing.>> require testing of any new chemical
screening devices to understand the abilities and limitations of
such devices relating to identifying narcotics at various purity
levels before CBP commits to the acquisition of such devices.
SEC. 3. <<NOTE: Deadline. Data.>> PLAN TO ENSURE OPIOID DETECTION
EQUIPMENT RESILIENCY.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this
section, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall implement a plan for
the long-term development of a centralized spectral database for
chemical screening devices. Such plan shall address the following:
(1) How newly identified spectra will be collected, stored,
and distributed to such devices in their operational
environment, including at ports of entry.
[[Page 134 STAT. 1138]]
(2) Identification of parties responsible for updates and
maintenance of such database.
Approved December 23, 2020.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 4761:
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 116-319, Pt. 1 (Comm. on Homeland Security).
SENATE REPORTS: No. 116-244 (Comm. on Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
Vol. 165 (2019):
Dec. 9, considered and passed House.
Vol. 166 (2020):
Dec. 7, considered and passed
Senate.
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