CEASE Overdose Act of 2023

Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement, Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Summary:  <p><strong></strong><b>Continuous and Enduring Action to Stop Every Overdose Act of 2023 or the CEASE Overdose Act of 2023 </b></p> <p>This bill permanently places fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. A schedule I controlled substance is a drug, substance, or chemical that has a high potential for abuse; has no currently accepted medical value; and is subject to regulatory controls and administrative, civil, and criminal penalties under the Controlled Substances Act.</p> <p>The temporary scheduling order issued by the Drug Enforcement Administration to place fentanyl-related substances into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act expires on December 31, 2024.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1580 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1580

 To amend the Controlled Substances Act with respect to the scheduling 
        of fentanyl-related substances, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 14, 2023

   Mr. Johnson of Louisiana 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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Controlled Substances Act with respect to the scheduling 
        of fentanyl-related 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Continuous and Enduring Action to 
Stop Every Overdose Act of 2023'' or the ``CEASE Overdose Act of 
2023''.

SEC. 2. CLASS SCHEDULING OF FENTANYL-RELATED SUBSTANCES.

    Section 202(c) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812(c)) 
is amended by adding at the end of schedule I the following:
    ``(e)(1) Unless specifically exempted or unless listed in another 
schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which 
contains any quantity of a fentanyl-related substance, or which 
contains the salts, isomers, and salts of isomers of a fentanyl-related 
substance whenever the existence of such salts, isomers, and salts of 
isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation.
    ``(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), except as provided in 
paragraph (3), the term `fentanyl-related substance' means any 
substance that is structurally related to fentanyl by 1 or more of the 
following modifications:
            ``(A) By replacement of the phenyl portion of the phenethyl 
        group by any monocycle, whether or not further substituted in 
        or on the monocycle.
            ``(B) By substitution in or on the phenethyl group with 
        alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxyl, hydroxyl, halo, haloalkyl, amino, or 
        nitro groups.
            ``(C) By substitution in or on the piperidine ring with 
        alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxyl, ester, ether, hydroxyl, halo, 
        haloalkyl, amino, or nitro groups.
            ``(D) By replacement of the aniline ring with any aromatic 
        monocycle whether or not further substituted in or on the 
        aromatic monocycle.
            ``(E) By replacement of the N-propionyl group with another 
        acyl group.
    ``(3) A substance that satisfies the definition of the term 
`fentanyl-related substance' in paragraph (2) shall nonetheless not be 
treated as a fentanyl-related substance subject to this schedule if the 
substance--
            ``(A) is controlled by action of the Attorney General under 
        section 201; or
            ``(B) is otherwise expressly listed in a schedule other 
        than this schedule.''.
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