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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 780 
To authorize the court to make an advisory statement under certain 
circumstances, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 28, 2025 
Mr. ISSA (for himself, Mr. KILEY of California, and Mr. OBERNOLTE) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju-
diciary, 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 com-
mittee concerned 
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 Representa-
tives 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 2025’’. 
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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 fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(i) ADVISORY STATEMENT.— 
‘‘(1) CONVICTION.—Any person who is con-
victed 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 counter-
feit 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 ac-
tion, and you knew or should have known that the sub-
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stance you provided contained fentanyl or a fentanyl ana-
logue, you may be charged with an offense under section 
1111 or 1112 of title 18, United States Code. This convic-
tion 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 there-
of. 
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