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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 5564
To amend the Controlled Substances Act with respect to the placing of
certain substances on the schedules of controlled substances, and for
other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 7, 2002
Mr. SWEENEY (for himself and Mr. OSBORNE) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in
addition to the Committees on the Judiciary and Education and the
Workforce, 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 with respect to
the placing of certain substances on the schedules of
controlled substances, 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. SCHEDULING OF CERTAIN SUBSTANCES.
(a) DEFINITION.—Section 102(23) of the Controlled
Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802(23)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘(A)’’ and inserting ‘‘(B)(i)’’;
(2) by striking ‘‘(B)’’ and inserting ‘‘(ii);
(3) by striking ‘‘(C)’’ and inserting ‘‘(iii); and
(4) by inserting after ‘‘means a substance—’’
the following new subparagraph:
‘‘(A) which the Attorney General has
found to be, and by regulation designated as
being, the immediate chemical precursor of an
anabolic steroid that has been scheduled as a
controlled substance (hereinafter in this sub-
paragraph referred to as ‘‘scheduled anabolic
steroid’’) which either is a metabolite of a
scheduled anabolic steroid or is transformed in
the body directly into a scheduled anabolic ster-
oid or the metabolite of a scheduled anabolic
steroid; or’’.
(b) PLACEMENT ON SCHEDULE.—Section 201(e) of
the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 811(e)) is
amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘or for the immediate pre-
cursor of a scheduled anabolic steroid, without re-
gard to the requirements of section 102(41), includ-
ing the requirement that the substance promote
muscle growth’’ after ‘‘section 202(b)’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘How-
ever, once an immediate precursor described in sec-
tion 102(23)(A) is placed in a schedule pursuant to
this section, it becomes a controlled substance and
the Attorney General may schedule an immediate
precursor of that substance in accordance with this
section.
SEC. 2. AT-RISK EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR GRADE AND
HIGH SCHOOL TEENAGERS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Office of Na-
tional Drug Control Policy (hereinafter in this section re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Director’’) is authorized to undertake
education programs at the grade and high school levels
to highlight the harmful effects of steroids and steroid pre-
cursor use by youths.
(b) TARGET REQUIREMENTS.—The Director shall, to
the maximum extent feasible, use amounts made available
to carry out subsection (a) for existing State and local
antidrug programs. Furthermore, funds made available
for this purpose shall be used primarily on education pro-
grams that will directly communicate with teachers, prin-
cipals, coaches, as well as grade and high school children
at the school level on the harmful effects of steroids and
steroid precursors.
(c) AUTHORIZATION.—There is authorized to be ap-
propriated for programs under section 2(a) $10,000,000
for fiscal year 2003, $15,000,000 for fiscal year 2004, and
$17,500,000 for fiscal year 2005.
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