Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 2025
Latest action · Sep 3, 2025 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
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.
- IntroducedJan 28, 2025
- Passed HouseSep 2, 2025
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 2025
This bill subjects certain Chinese entities and government officials to potential sanctions related to opioid trafficking and requires the President to conduct certain preliminary analyses before regulating economic transactions in the event of a national emergency related to international drug trafficking.
Specifically, for the purposes of the Fentanyl Sanctions Act, the bill changes the definition of foreign opioid trafficker to specify that the term includes (1) Chinese entities involved in the production or sale of synthetic opioids or related pharmaceutical ingredients that fail to take steps to detect or prevent opioid trafficking; and (2) certain senior Chinese government officials that aid and abet opioid trafficking, including through intentional inaction. Under current law, the President must impose certain sanctions on individuals and entities identified as foreign opioid traffickers.
Further, the bill extends through 2029 an existing requirement that the President report to Congress annually on identified foreign opioid traffickers and any sanctions imposed on them. (This requirement expired in December 2024.)
The bill also requires the President to take additional steps in issuing regulations under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) pursuant to a declared national emergency related to international drug trafficking. (IEEPA authorizes the President to regulate a variety of economic transactions following a declaration of national emergency.) Under the bill, the President must evaluate the costs and benefits of issuing economic regulations for the purpose of resolving the drug trafficking emergency and publish a discussion of such costs and benefits.
Recorded votes 1
Newest first. Open one to see how every member voted.
| Roll call | Question | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House 220 | On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended | Passed407–4 | Sep 2, 2025 |
Cosponsors 9
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 28, 2025 to Sep 2, 2025; 2 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-NC | Gregory F. Murphy | Original | Jan 28, 2025 |
| R-IA | Zachary Nunn | Original | Jan 28, 2025 |
| R-NY | Michael Lawler | Mar 10, 2025 | |
| R-NC | Tim Moore | Mar 25, 2025 | |
| R-FL | Anna Paulina Luna | Apr 8, 2025 | |
| R-CA | Young Kim | Apr 8, 2025 | |
| R-PA | Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr. | May 5, 2025 | |
| D-NH | Chris Pappas | Aug 29, 2025 | |
| D-NY | Laura Gillen | Sep 2, 2025 |
Committees 5
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Foreign Affairs Committee | Referred Jan 28, 2025Markup Apr 9, 2025 |
| House | Financial Services Committee | Referred Jan 28, 2025Markup Mar 5, 2025Reported Mar 21, 2025Exchange of letters |
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Jan 28, 2025Exchange of letters |
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Jan 28, 2025Exchange of letters |
| Senate | Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee | Referred Sep 3, 2025 |
Actions 15
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 3, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
- Sep 2, 2025Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H3741-3742)
- Sep 2, 2025Mr. Baumgartner moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Sep 2, 2025Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3728-3731)
- Sep 2, 2025DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 747.
- Sep 2, 2025At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
- Sep 2, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 407 - 4 (Roll no. 220). (text: CR H3728-3729)
- Sep 2, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Apr 9, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Apr 9, 2025Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Voice Vote.
- Mar 21, 2025Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 119-19, Part I.
- Mar 5, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Mar 5, 2025Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 49 - 0.
- Jan 28, 2025Introduced in House
- Jan 28, 2025Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Oversight and Government Reform, and 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.
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H3866 | John Joyce R-PA | Sep 8, 2025 |
| House | Debate and remarks H3728–H3731Text printed H3728Recorded votes H3741enact | Andy Barr R-KY, Gregory W. Meeks D-NY, Michael Baumgartner R-WA | Sep 2, 2025 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimates 2
- May 22, 2025H.R. 747, Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 2025As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on April 9, 2025
- Apr 1, 2025H.R. 747, Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 2025As reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on March 21, 2025
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 18, January 28, 2025, page H406.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 119-13 | MARKUP OF VARIOUS MEASURES206 pages | Foreign Affairs Committee | Apr 9, 2025 |
Titles 5
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To impose sanctions with respect to Chinese producers of synthetic opioids and opioid precursors, to hold Chinese officials accountable for the spread of illicit fentanyl, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 2025
- Short Title(s) as Passed House
- Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 2025
- Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text
- Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 2025
- Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text
- To impose sanctions with respect to Chinese producers of synthetic opioids and opioid precursors, to hold Chinese officials accountable for the spread of illicit fentanyl, and for other purposes.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
Text 3
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 3, 2025Referred in Senate
- Sep 2, 2025Engrossed in House
- Jan 28, 2025Introduced in House
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