I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5880 
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to require regulated persons to 
identify tableting machines and encapsulating machines by serial number. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 31, 2025 
Ms. HAGEMAN (for herself, Ms. STANSBURY, Mr. CRENSHAW, Mr. HARDER 
of California, and Mr. FRY) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred 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 amend the Controlled Substances Act to require regulated 
persons to identify tableting machines and encapsulating 
machines by serial number. 
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 ‘‘Fight Illicit Pill Press-
es Act’’. 
SEC. 2. REGULATION OF CERTAIN MACHINES. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 102 of the Controlled 
Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802) is amended— 
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(1) by striking paragraph (38) and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(38) The term ‘regulated person’ means a person 
who— 
‘‘(A) manufactures, distributes, imports, or ex-
ports a listed chemical; 
‘‘(B) manufactures, distributes, delivers, sells, 
imports, or exports a tableting machine, an encap-
sulating machine, or a critical part; or 
‘‘(C) who acts as a broker or trader for an 
international transaction involving a listed chemical, 
a tableting machine, an encapsulating machine, or a 
critical part.’’; 
(2) by striking paragraph (39)(B) and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(B) a distribution, delivery, sale, importation, 
or exportation of a tableting machine, encapsulating 
machine, or critical part.’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(60) The term ‘critical part’, when used in reference 
to a tableting machine or encapsulating machine, means 
any of the following integral parts of a tableting or encap-
sulating machine: 
‘‘(A) An upper punch. 
‘‘(B) A lower punch. 
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‘‘(C) A die. 
‘‘(61) The term ‘die’ means a tool that serves as the 
mold in which a product is compressed to form the desired 
size and shape of a tablet or capsule. 
‘‘(62) The term ‘lower punch’ means the punch in-
serted into the turret below the die. 
‘‘(63) The term ‘punch’ means a rod-shaped tool used 
in producing tablets and other products. 
‘‘(64) The term ‘upper punch’ means the punch in-
serted into the turret above the die.’’. 
(b) REGULATION.— 
(1) RECORDS OF REGULATED TRANSACTIONS.— 
Section 310(a) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 
U.S.C. 830(a)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(4) Each regulated person who manufactures, dis-
tributes, delivers, sells, imports, or exports a tableting ma-
chine, an encapsulating machine, a critical part of a 
tableting machine, or a critical part of an encapsulating 
machine shall, when and as required by regulations of the 
Attorney General, identify the tableting machine, encap-
sulating machine, critical part of a tableting machine, or 
critical part of an encapsulating machine by means of a 
serial number that is engraved, cast, or otherwise perma-
nently affixed to a nonremovable part of the tableting ma-
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chine, encapsulating machine, or critical part of a 
tableting machine, or critical part of an encapsulating ma-
chine.’’. 
(2) REPORTS TO ATTORNEY GENERAL.—Section 
310(b)(1) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 
U.S.C. 830(b)(1)) is amended by striking subpara-
graph (D) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(D) any regulated transaction in a tableting 
machine, encapsulating machine, or critical part, in-
cluding the serial number affixed to the tableting 
machine, encapsulating machine, or critical part.’’. 
(3) REGULATIONS.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 
days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Attorney General shall promulgate regula-
tions carrying out the amendments made by 
paragraph (1). 
(B) DETAILED
GUIDANCE.—The regula-
tions required under subparagraph (A) shall in-
clude detailed guidance on serial numbers af-
fixed to tableting machines, encapsulating ma-
chines, or critical parts manufactured on or be-
fore the date of enactment of this Act. 
(C) 
REQUIREMENT.—Notwithstanding 
paragraph (4), a serial number affixed to a 
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tableting machine, encapsulating machine, or 
critical part manufactured on or before the date 
of enactment of this Act in accordance with the 
guidance provided under subparagraph (B) 
shall be deemed required under paragraph (4) 
of section 310(a) of the Controlled Substances 
Act, as added by paragraph (1) of this sub-
section. 
(4) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made 
by paragraph (1) shall apply only to any tableting 
machine, encapsulating machine, or critical part 
manufactured, distributed, delivered, sold, imported, 
or exported after the effective date of the regulations 
promulgated under paragraph (2). 
(c) PROHIBITED ACTS.—Section 403(a) of the Con-
trolled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 843(a)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (8), by striking ‘‘or’’ at the 
end; 
(2) in paragraph (9), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting a semicolon; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(10) to remove, alter, or obliterate any serial 
number affixed to a tableting machine, encap-
sulating machine, a critical part of a tableting ma-
chine, or a critical part of an encapsulating machine, 
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