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116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4812 
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide for the modification, 
transfer, and termination of a registration to manufacture, distribute, 
or dispense controlled substances or list I chemicals, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 23, 2019 
Mr. GRIFFITH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee 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 juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide for the 
modification, transfer, and termination of a registration 
to manufacture, distribute, or dispense controlled sub-
stances or list I chemicals, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Ensuring Compliance 
Against Drug Diversion Act of 2019’’. 
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SEC. 2. MODIFICATION, TRANSFER, AND TERMINATION OF 
REGISTRATION 
TO 
MANUFACTURE, 
DIS-
TRIBUTE, OR DISPENSE CONTROLLED SUB-
STANCES. 
Subsection (a) of section 302 of the Controlled Sub-
stances Act (21 U.S.C. 822) is amended by adding at the 
end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(3)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (C), the 
registration of any registrant under this title to manufac-
ture, distribute, or dispense controlled substances or list 
I chemicals terminates if and when such registrant— 
‘‘(i) dies; 
‘‘(ii) ceases legal existence; 
‘‘(iii) discontinues business or professional prac-
tice; or 
‘‘(iv) surrenders such registration. 
‘‘(B) In the case of such a registrant who ceases legal 
existence or discontinues business or professional practice, 
such registrant shall promptly notify the Attorney General 
in writing of such fact. 
‘‘(C) No registration under this title to manufacture, 
distribute, or dispense controlled substances or list I 
chemicals, and no authority conferred thereby, may be as-
signed or otherwise transferred except upon such condi-
tions as the Attorney General may specify and then only 
pursuant to written consent. A registrant to whom a reg-
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istration is assigned or transferred pursuant to the pre-
ceding sentence may not manufacture, distribute, or dis-
pense controlled substances or list I chemicals pursuant 
to such registration until the Attorney General receives 
such written consent. 
‘‘(D) In the case of a registrant under this title to 
manufacture, distribute, or dispense controlled substances 
or list I chemicals desiring to discontinue business or pro-
fessional practice altogether or with respect to controlled 
substances and list I chemicals (without assigning or 
transferring such business or professional practice to an-
other entity), such registrant shall return to the Attorney 
General for cancellation— 
‘‘(i) the registrant’s certificate of registration; 
‘‘(ii) any unexecuted order forms in the reg-
istrant’s possession; and 
‘‘(iii) any other documentation that the Attor-
ney General may require.’’. 
Æ 
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