HR 335 · 118th Congress 2023–2025, ended

STOP Fentanyl Act

Introduced Jan 12, 2023 Originated House Sponsor Glenn Grothman R-WI

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jan 20, 2023 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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. IntroducedJan 12, 2023
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Standardizing Thresholds Of Penalties for Fentanyl Act or the STOP Fentanyl Act

This bill reduces the drug quantity thresholds that trigger a mandatory minimum prison term for a defendant who manufactures, distributes, imports, exports, or possesses with intent to distribute fentanyl. The bill also creates enhanced criminal penalties for certain violations involving fentanyl that was imported along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Specifically, the bill reduces from 400 to 5 grams the fentanyl quantity and from 100 to 0.05 grams the fentanyl analogue quantity that trigger a mandatory minimum prison term for high-level first-time or repeat offenders. It also reduces from 40 to 0.5 grams the fentanyl quantity and from 10 to 0.005 grams the fentanyl analogue quantity that trigger a mandatory minimum prison term for low-level first-time or repeat offenders.

Additionally, the bill creates enhanced mandatory minimum prison terms for importing or exporting fentanyl that was imported along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Cosponsors 65

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 12, 2023 to Jun 25, 2024, with 21 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-MIBill HuizengaOriginalJan 12, 2023
R-FLBill PoseyOriginalJan 12, 2023
R-MNBrad FinstadOriginalJan 12, 2023
R-TXBrian BabinOriginalJan 12, 2023
R-UTBurgess OwensOriginalJan 12, 2023
R-NYClaudia TenneyOriginalJan 12, 2023
R-NCDavid RouzerOriginalJan 12, 2023
R-CADoug LaMalfaOriginalJan 12, 2023
R-CODoug LambornOriginalJan 12, 2023
R-INJames R. BairdOriginalJan 12, 2023
R-INJim BanksOriginalJan 12, 2023
R-SCJoe WilsonOriginalJan 12, 2023
R-GAMarjorie Taylor GreeneOriginalJan 12, 2023
R-TXPat FallonOriginalJan 12, 2023
R-SCRalph NormanOriginalJan 12, 2023
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Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jan 20, 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  2. Jan 12, 2023Introduced in House
  3. Jan 12, 2023Referred 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.

Subjects

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

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  1. Jan 12, 2023Introduced in House

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