I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2747 
To establish a grant program to facilitate the creation of methamphetamine 
precursor electronic logbook systems, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 15, 2007 
Mr. ELLISON (for himself, Mr. RAMSTAD, Mr. ABERCROMBIE, Ms. BERKLEY, 
Mr. BOSWELL, Mr. CARNAHAN, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. COHEN, Ms. HIRONO, 
Mr. LARSEN of Washington, Ms. MCCOLLUM of Minnesota, Mr. OBER-
STAR, and Mr. WALZ of Minnesota) 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 deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To establish a grant program to facilitate the creation of 
methamphetamine precursor electronic logbook systems, 
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 ‘‘Methamphetamine 
Production Prevention Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds that— 
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(1) the manufacture, distribution and use of 
methamphetamine have inflicted damages on individ-
uals, families, communities, businesses, the economy, 
and the environment throughout the United States; 
(2) methamphetamine is unique among illicit 
drugs in that the harms relating to methamphet-
amine stem not only from its distribution and use, 
but also from the manufacture of the drug by 
‘‘cooks’’ in clandestine labs throughout the United 
States; 
(3) Federal and State restrictions limiting the 
sale of legal drug products that contain meth-
amphetamine precursors have reduced the number 
and size of domestic methamphetamine labs; 
(4) domestic methamphetamine cooks have 
managed to circumvent restrictions on the sale of 
methamphetamine precursors by ‘‘smurfing’’, or pur-
chasing impermissibly large cumulative amounts of 
precursor products by traveling from retailer to re-
tailer and buying permissible quantities at each re-
tailer; 
(5) although Federal and State laws require re-
tailers of methamphetamine precursor products to 
keep written or electronic logbooks recording sales of 
precursor products, retailers are not always required 
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to transmit this logbook information to appropriate 
law enforcement and regulatory agencies, except 
upon request; 
(6) when retailers’ logbook information regard-
ing sales of methamphetamine precursor products is 
kept in a database in an electronic format and 
transmitted between retailers and appropriate law 
enforcement and regulatory agencies, such informa-
tion can be used to further reduce the number of do-
mestic methamphetamine labs by preventing the sale 
of methamphetamine precursors in excess of legal 
limits, and by identifying and prosecuting ‘‘smurfs’’ 
and others involved in methamphetamine manufac-
turing; 
(7) States and local governments are already 
beginning to develop such electronic logbook data-
base systems, but they are hindered by a lack of re-
sources; 
(8) efforts by States and local governments to 
develop such electronic logbook database systems 
may also be hindered by logbook recordkeeping re-
quirements contained in section 310(e) of the Con-
trolled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 830(e)) that are 
tailored to written logbooks and not to electronic 
logbooks; and 
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(9) providing resources to States and localities 
and making technical corrections to the Combat 
Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005 will allow 
more rapid and widespread development of such 
electronic logbook systems, thereby reducing the do-
mestic manufacture of methamphetamine and its as-
sociated harms. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act— 
(1) the term ‘‘local’’ means a county, city, town, 
township, parish, village, or other general purpose 
political subdivision of a State; 
(2) the term ‘‘methamphetamine precursor elec-
tronic logbook system’’ means a system by which a 
regulated seller electronically records and transmits 
to an electronic database accessible to appropriate 
law enforcement and regulatory agencies information 
regarding the sale of a scheduled listed chemical 
product that is required to be maintained under sec-
tion 310(e) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 
U.S.C. 830(e)) (as amended by this Act), State law 
governing the distribution of a scheduled listed 
chemical product, or any other Federal, State, or 
local law; 
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(3) the terms ‘‘regulated seller’’ and ‘‘scheduled 
listed chemical product’’ have the meanings given 
such terms in section 102 of the Controlled Sub-
stances Act (21 U.S.C. 802); and 
(4) the term ‘‘State’’— 
(A) means a State of the United States, 
the District of Columbia, and any common-
wealth, territory, or possession of the United 
States; and 
(B) includes an ‘‘Indian tribe’’, as that 
term is defined in section 102 of the Federally 
Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 (25 
U.S.C. 479a). 
SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION FOR EFFECTIVE METHAMPHET-
AMINE PRECURSOR ELECTRONIC LOGBOOK 
SYSTEMS. 
Section 310(e)(1) of the Controlled Substances Act 
(21 U.S.C. 830(e)(1)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A)(iii), by striking ‘‘a 
written or electronic list’’ and inserting ‘‘a written 
list or an electronic list that complies with subpara-
graph (H)’’; and 
(2) adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(H) ELECTRONIC LOGBOOKS.— 
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‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—A logbook main-
tained in electronic form shall include, for 
each sale to which the requirement of sub-
paragraph (A)(iii) applies, the name of any 
product sold, the quantity of that product 
sold, the name and address of each pur-
chaser, the date and time of the sale, and 
any other information required by State or 
local law. 
‘‘(ii) SELLERS.—In complying with 
the requirements of clause (i), a regulated 
seller may— 
‘‘(I) ask a prospective purchaser 
for the name and address, and enter 
such information into the electronic 
logbook, and if the seller enters the 
name and address of the prospective 
purchaser into the electronic logbook, 
the seller shall determine that the 
name entered into the electronic log-
book corresponds to the name pro-
vided on the identification presented 
by the purchaser under subparagraph 
(A)(iv)(I)(aa); and 
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‘‘(II) use a software program 
that automatically and accurately 
records the date and time of each 
sale. 
‘‘(iii) PURCHASERS.—A prospective 
purchaser in a sale to which the require-
ment of subparagraph (A)(iii) applies that 
is being documented in an electronic log-
book shall provide a signature in at least 
one of the following ways: 
‘‘(I) Signing a device presented 
by the seller that captures signatures 
in an electronic format. 
‘‘(II) Signing a bound paper 
book. 
‘‘(III) Signing a printed docu-
ment that corresponds to the elec-
tronically-captured logbook informa-
tion for such purchaser. 
‘‘(iv) ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES.— 
‘‘(I) DEVICE.—Any device used 
under clause (iii)(I) shall— 
‘‘(aa) preserve each signa-
ture in a manner that clearly 
links that signature to the other 
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electronically-captured 
logbook 
information relating to the pro-
spective purchaser providing that 
signature; and 
‘‘(bb) 
display 
information 
that complies with subparagraph 
(A)(v). 
‘‘(II) DOCUMENT RETENTION.— 
A regulated seller that uses a device 
under clause (iii)(I) to capture signa-
tures shall maintain each such signa-
ture for not less than 2 years after 
the date on which that signature is 
captured. 
‘‘(v) PAPER BOOKS.— 
‘‘(I) IN
GENERAL.—Any bound 
paper book used under clause (iii)(II) 
shall— 
‘‘(aa) ensure that the signa-
ture of the prospective purchaser 
is adjacent to a unique identifier 
number or a printed sticker that 
clearly links that signature to the 
electronically-captured 
logbook 
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information relating to that pro-
spective purchaser; and 
‘‘(bb) 
display 
information 
that complies with subparagraph 
(A)(v). 
‘‘(II) DOCUMENT RETENTION.— 
A regulated seller that uses bound 
paper books under clause (iii)(II) shall 
maintain any entry in such books for 
not less than 2 years after the date on 
which that entry is made. 
‘‘(vi) PRINTED DOCUMENTS.— 
‘‘(I) IN GENERAL.—Any printed 
document used under clause (iii)(III) 
shall— 
‘‘(aa) be printed by the sell-
er at the time of the sale that 
document relates to; 
‘‘(bb) 
display 
information 
that complies with subparagraph 
(A)(v); 
‘‘(cc) for the relevant sale, 
list the name of each product 
sold, the quantity sold, the name 
and address of the purchaser, 
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and the date and time of the 
sale; 
‘‘(dd) contain a clearly iden-
tified signature line for a pur-
chaser to sign; and 
‘‘(ee) include a notice that 
the signer has read the printed 
information and agrees that it is 
accurate. 
‘‘(II) DOCUMENT RETENTION.— 
‘‘(aa) IN GENERAL.—A reg-
ulated seller that uses printed 
documents under clause (iii)(III) 
shall maintain each such docu-
ment for not less than 2 years 
after the date on which that doc-
ument is signed. 
‘‘(bb) SECURE
STORAGE.— 
Each signed document shall be 
inserted into a binder or other 
secure means of document stor-
age immediately after the pur-
chaser signs the document.’’. 
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SEC. 5. GRANTS FOR METHAMPHETAMINE PRECURSOR 
ELECTRONIC LOGBOOK SYSTEMS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Attorney General of the 
United States, through the Office of Justice Programs of 
the Department of Justice, may make grants, in accord-
ance with such regulations as the Attorney General may 
prescribe, to State and local governments to plan, develop, 
implement, or enhance methamphetamine precursor elec-
tronic logbook systems. 
(b) USE OF FUNDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—A grant under this section 
may be used to enable a methamphetamine pre-
cursor electronic logbook system to— 
(A) indicate to a regulated seller, upon the 
entry of information regarding a prospective 
purchaser into the methamphetamine precursor 
electronic logbook system, whether that pro-
spective purchaser has been determined by ap-
propriate law enforcement or regulatory agen-
cies to be eligible, ineligible, or potentially ineli-
gible to purchase a scheduled listed chemical 
product under Federal, State, or local law; and 
(B) provide contact information for a pro-
spective purchaser to use if the prospective pur-
chaser wishes to question a determination by 
appropriate law enforcement or regulatory 
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agencies that the prospective purchaser is ineli-
gible or potentially ineligible to purchase a 
scheduled listed chemical product. 
(2) ACCESS
TO
INFORMATION.—Any meth-
amphetamine precursor electronic logbook system 
planned, developed, implemented, or enhanced with a 
grant under this section shall prohibit accessing, 
using, or sharing information entered into that sys-
tem for any purpose other than to— 
(A) ensure compliance with this Act, sec-
tion 310(e) of the Controlled Substances Act 
(21 U.S.C. 830(e)) (as amended by this Act), 
State law governing the distribution of any 
scheduled listed chemical product, or other ap-
plicable Federal, State, or local law; or 
(B) facilitate a product recall to protect 
public safety. 
(c) GRANT REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) MAXIMUM AMOUNT.—The Attorney General 
shall not award a grant under this section in an 
amount that exceeds $300,000. 
(2) DURATION.—The period of a grant made 
under this section shall not exceed 3 years. 
(3) MATCHING REQUIREMENT.—Not less than 
25 percent of the cost of a project for which a grant 
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