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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5669 
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to authorize physicians, pursuant 
to an agreement with the Attorney General, to transport controlled 
substances from a practice setting to another practice setting or to 
a disaster area. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 21, 2021 
Mr. SESSIONS 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 authorize physi-
cians, pursuant to an agreement with the Attorney Gen-
eral, to transport controlled substances from a practice 
setting to another practice setting or to a disaster area. 
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 ‘‘Medical Controlled 
Substances Transportation Act of 2021’’. 
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SEC. 2. TRANSPORT BY PHYSICIANS OF CONTROLLED SUB-
STANCES TO ANOTHER PRACTICE SETTING 
OR TO A DISASTER AREA. 
Section 303(f) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 
U.S.C. 823(f)) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through 
(5) as subparagraphs (A) through (E); 
(2) by striking ‘‘(f) The Attorney General’’ and 
inserting ‘‘(f)(1) The Attorney General’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) If a physician registered under paragraph (1) 
enters into an agreement with the Attorney General de-
scribed in paragraph (3), the Attorney General shall au-
thorize the physician to transport one or more controlled 
substances— 
‘‘(A) from a practice setting to another practice 
setting in order to administer the substances (under 
applicable State law) to one or more patients; or 
‘‘(B) from a practice setting to a disaster area 
in order to administer the substances (under appli-
cable State law) for purposes of treating injuries or 
conditions resulting from a major disaster. 
‘‘(3) An agreement referred to in paragraph (2) shall 
require the physician— 
‘‘(A) to notify the Attorney General in advance 
of any such transport; 
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‘‘(B) to identify in any such notification— 
‘‘(i) the controlled substances to be trans-
ported; 
‘‘(ii) the practice setting from which the 
controlled substances will be transported; 
‘‘(iii) the practice setting or disaster area, 
as applicable, to which the controlled substances 
will be transported; 
‘‘(iv) the intended dates of transport; 
‘‘(v) the anticipated travel time; and 
‘‘(vi) the intended mode of transport; 
‘‘(C) to limit the time of transport of any con-
trolled substance pursuant to this paragraph (be-
tween practice settings or between a practice setting 
and a disaster area) to not more than 72 consecutive 
hours; and 
‘‘(D) to maintain records in the physician’s pri-
mary practice setting on the dispensing of any con-
trolled substance transported pursuant to this para-
graph, including identification of— 
‘‘(i) the location where the controlled sub-
stance was dispensed; and 
‘‘(ii) the quantity of the controlled sub-
stance dispensed. 
‘‘(4) For purposes of paragraphs (2) and (3): 
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‘‘(A) The term ‘disaster area’ means the area 
for which the President has declared a major dis-
aster, during the period of the declaration. 
‘‘(B) The term ‘major disaster’ has the mean-
ing given the term under section 102 of the Robert 
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assist-
ance Act.’’. 
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