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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6671 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6671

  To authorize the court to make an advisory statement under certain 
                 circumstances, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 7, 2023

  Mr. Issa (for himself, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Kiley, Mr. LaMalfa, and Mr. 
  Obernolte) introduced the following bill; which was referred 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

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                                 A BILL

 
  To authorize the court to make an advisory statement under certain 
                 circumstances, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Alexandra's Law Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ADVISORY STATEMENT.

    Section 401 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 841) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(i) Advisory Statement.--
            ``(1) Conviction.--Any person who is convicted of, or 
        enters a plea of guilty or no contest, to an offense under this 
        section with respect to which death occurred, may be charged 
        with homicide.
            ``(2) Court advising.--A court shall advise any person who 
        is convicted of, or enters a plea of guilty or no contest to, 
        an offense under this section involving N-phenyl-N-[1-(2-
        phenylethyl)-4-piperidinyl] propanamide, or an analogue 
        thereof, exchanged for anything of value, with respect to which 
        death occurred, of the following:
```You are hereby advised that all illicit drugs and counterfeit pills 
are dangerous to human life and become even deadlier when they are, 
sometimes unknowingly, mixed with substances such as fentanyl and 
analogues of fentanyl. People can and have died from these substances, 
even in very small doses. It is extremely dangerous and deadly to human 
life to sell or administer drugs, in any form, when not lawfully 
authorized to do so. If you do so in the future and a person dies as a 
result of that action, and you knew or should have known that the 
substance you provided contained fentanyl or a fentanyl analogue, you 
may be charged with an offense under section 1111 or 1112 of title 18, 
United States Code. This conviction will be considered by a judge or 
jury as to whether you knew or should have known that the substance you 
provided to the decedent contained fentanyl.'.
            ``(3) Evidence.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph 
                (4), in the case of a defendant who is charged with an 
                offense under section 1111 of 1112 of title 18, United 
                States Code, with respect to a death involving N-
                phenyl-N-[1-(2-phenylethyl)-4-piperidinyl] propanamide 
                or an analogue thereof, exchanged for anything of 
                value, a previous conviction for, or a plea of guilty 
                or no contest to, an offense under this section 
                involving N-phenyl-N-[1-(2-phenylethyl)-4-piperidinyl] 
                propanamide, or an analogue thereof, in exchange for 
                anything of value, with respect to which death 
                occurred, may be used as evidence that the defendant 
                had knowledge that the substance provided to the 
                decedent contained N-phenyl-N-[1-(2-phenylethyl)-4-
                piperidinyl] propanamide or an analogue thereof.
                    ``(B) Admission of state court acknowledgment.--Any 
                sworn statement used in State court that is 
                substantially similar to the statement in paragraph (2) 
                shall be admissible in a Federal court.
                    ``(C) Admission of federal court acknowledgment.--
                Any sworn statement in paragraph (2) may be admissible 
                in a State court.
            ``(4) Exception.--Paragraph (3) shall not apply to the 
        prosecution of an individual who was a minor at the time at 
        which the individual committed the offense.''.
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