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[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 207 Introduced in House (IH)]

108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 207

 To amend the Controlled Substances Act with respect to the placing of 
 certain substances on the schedules of controlled substances, and for 
                            other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 7, 2003

  Mr. Sweeney (for himself and Mr. Osborne) introduced the following 
 bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and 
 in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary and Education and the 
 Workforce, 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 with respect to the placing of 
 certain substances on the schedules of controlled substances, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SCHEDULING OF CERTAIN SUBSTANCES.

    (a) Definition.--Section 102(23) of the Controlled Substances Act 
(21 U.S.C. 802(23)) is amended?
            (1) by striking ``(A)'' and inserting ``(B)(i)'';
            (2) by striking ``(B)'' and inserting ``(ii)'';
            (3) by striking ``(C)'' and inserting ``(iii)''; and
            (4) by inserting after ``means a substance?'' the following 
        new subparagraph:
                    ``(A) which the Attorney General has found to be, 
                and by regulation designated as being, the immediate 
                chemical precursor of an anabolic steroid that has been 
                scheduled as a controlled substance (hereinafter in 
                this subparagraph referred to as `scheduled anabolic 
                steroid') which either is a metabolite of a scheduled 
                anabolic steroid or is transformed in the body directly 
                into a scheduled anabolic steroid or the metabolite of 
                a scheduled anabolic steroid; or''.
    (b) Placement on Schedule.--Section 201(e) of the Controlled 
Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 811(e)) is amended?
            (1) by inserting ``or for the immediate precursor of a 
        scheduled anabolic steroid, without regard to the requirements 
        of section 102(41), including the requirement that the 
        substance promote muscle growth'' after ``section 202(b)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following: ``However, once an 
        immediate precursor described in section 102(23)(A) is placed 
        in a schedule pursuant to this section, it becomes a controlled 
        substance and the Attorney General may schedule an immediate 
        precursor of that substance in accordance with this section.''.

SEC. 2. AT-RISK EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR GRADE AND HIGH SCHOOL TEENAGERS.

    (a) In General.--The Director of the Office of National Drug 
Control Policy (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 
``Director'') is authorized to undertake education programs at the 
grade and high school levels to highlight the harmful effects of 
steroids and steroid precursor use by youths.
    (b) Target Requirements.--The Director shall, to the maximum extent 
feasible, use amounts made available to carry out subsection (a) for 
existing State and local antidrug programs. Furthermore, funds made 
available for this purpose shall be used primarily on education 
programs that will directly communicate with teachers, principals, 
coaches, as well as grade and high school children at the school level 
on the harmful effects of steroids and steroid precursors.
    (c) Authorization.--There is authorized to be appropriated for 
programs under section 2(a) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2004, 
$15,000,000 for fiscal year 2005, and $17,500,000 for fiscal year 2006.
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