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Union Calendar No. 481 

116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 3878 

[Report No. 116–583, Part I] 

To amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify the process for registrants 

to exercise due diligence upon discovering a suspicious order, and for 

other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 23, 2019 

Mr. MCKINLEY (for himself and Mrs. DINGELL) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred 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 

NOVEMBER 16, 2020 

Additional sponsors: Mr. WALDEN and Ms. STEFANIK

NOVEMBER 16, 2020 

Reported from the Committee on Energy and Commerce with an amendment 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

NOVEMBER 16, 2020 

Committee on the Judiciary discharged; committed to the Committee of the 

Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on July 23, 2019] 


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A BILL 

To amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify the process for registrants to exercise due diligence upon discovering a suspicious order, and for other purposes. 


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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Block, Report, And Sus5 pend Suspicious Shipments Act of 2020’’. 

6 SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF PROCESS FOR REGISTRANTS TO 

7 EXERCISE DUE DILIGENCE UPON DISCOV8 ERING A SUSPICIOUS ORDER. 

9 (a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (3) of section 312(a) of 

10 the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 832(a)) is amend11 ed to read as follows: 

12 ‘‘(3) upon discovering a suspicious order or se13 ries of orders— 

14 ‘‘(A) exercise due diligence; 

15 ‘‘(B) establish and maintain (for not less 

16 than a period to be determined by the Adminis17 trator of the Drug Enforcement Administration) 

18 a record of the due diligence that was performed; 

19 ‘‘(C) decline to fill the order or series of or20 ders if the due diligence fails to resolve all of the 

21 indicators that gave rise to the suspicion that 

22 filling the order or series of orders would cause 

23 a violation of this title by the registrant or the 

24 prospective purchaser; and 


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1 ‘‘(D) notify the Administrator of the Drug 

2 Enforcement Administration and the Special 

3 Agent in Charge of the Division Office of the 

4 Drug Enforcement Administration for the area 

5 in which the registrant is located or conducts 

6 business of— 

7 ‘‘(i) each suspicious order or series of 

8 orders discovered by the registrant; and 

9 ‘‘(ii) the indicators giving rise to the 

10 suspicion that filling the order or series of 

11 orders would cause a violation of this title 

12 by the registrant or the prospective pur13 chaser.’’. 

14 (b) APPLICABILITY.—Section 312(a)(3) of the Con15 trolled Substances Act, as amended by subsection (a), shall 

16 apply beginning on the day that is 6 months after the date 

17 of enactment of this Act. Until such day, section 312(a)(3) 

18 of the Controlled Substances Act shall apply as such section 

19 312(a)(3) was in effect on the day before the date of enact20 ment of this Act. 


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Union Calendar No. 481 

116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 3878 

[Report No. 116–583, Part I] 

A BILL 

To amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify 

for other purposes. gence upon discovering a suspicious order, and the process for registrants to exercise due diliNOVEMBER 16, 2020 

Reported from the Committee on Energy and Commerce 

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with an amendment 

OVEMBER 16, 2020 

Committee on the Judiciary discharged; committed to the 

Union and ordered to be printed Committee of the Whole House on the State of the 


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