HR 2020 · 116th Congress 2019–2021, ended

Substance Tableting and Encapsulating Enforcement and Registration Act

Fact sheet

Latest action · May 3, 2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedApr 2, 2019
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Substance Tableting and Encapsulating Enforcement and Registration Act or the STEER Act

This bill establishes registration requirements for tableting machines (pill presses) and encapsulating machines (capsule fillers).

Specifically, the bill requires a person who possesses a tableting machine or encapsulating machine to obtain a registration from the Drug Enforcement Administration, subject to specified exceptions.

Additionally, it prohibits and penalizes—with civil fines, criminal penalties, or both—the possession of an unregistered tableting machine or encapsulating machine.

Cosponsors 1

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Apr 2, 2019.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-NHAnn M. KusterOriginalApr 2, 2019

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. May 3, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
  2. Apr 3, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  3. Apr 2, 2019Introduced in House
  4. Apr 2, 2019Referred 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.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
S 989STEER ActRelated billApr 2, 2019

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Apr 2, 2019Introduced in House

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