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116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8732 
To modify reporting requirements under the Controlled Substances Act. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 9, 2020 
Ms. CASTOR of Florida (for herself and Mr. MCKINLEY) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To modify reporting requirements under the Controlled 
Substances Act. 
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 ‘‘Preventing Pill Mills 
Through Data Sharing Act’’. 
SEC. 2. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) RECORDS AND REPORTS OF REGISTRANTS.—Sec-
tion 307 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 827) 
is amended— 
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(1) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘(d)(1)’’ and 
all that follows through the end of paragraph (1) 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘(d)(1)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), 
every person registered under section 303 shall, not less 
frequently than monthly, make reports to the Attorney 
General through the Automated Reports and Consolidated 
Orders System, or any subsequent automated system de-
veloped by the Drug Enforcement Administration to mon-
itor controlled substances, of every sale, delivery, or other 
disposal by the person of any controlled substance, identi-
fying by the registration number assigned under this title 
the person or establishment (unless exempt from registra-
tion under section 302(d)) to whom such sale, delivery, 
or other disposal was made. 
‘‘(B) Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to— 
‘‘(i) the retail sale or delivery of a controlled 
substance by a pharmacy registered under section 
303 to another pharmacy registered under that sec-
tion to fulfill a specific patient need, as defined in 
section 581 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cos-
metic Act (21 U.S.C. 360eee); or 
‘‘(ii) the retail dispensing of a controlled sub-
stance by a pharmacy registered under section 303. 
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‘‘(C) A person registered under section 303 that does 
not sell, deliver, or otherwise dispose of a controlled sub-
stance during a month shall not be required to submit a 
report for that month under subparagraph (A).’’; and 
(2) in subsection (f)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) in the matter preceding subpara-
graph (A)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘manufacturer 
and distributor registrants’’ and in-
serting ‘‘persons registered under sec-
tion 303’’; and 
(II) by striking ‘‘selected’’; 
(ii) in subparagraph (A)— 
(I) by inserting ‘‘or pharmacy’’ 
after ‘‘distributor’’; and 
(II) by inserting before the pe-
riod at the end the following: ‘‘to 
whom controlled substances are dis-
tributed’’; and 
(iii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘opioids’’ and inserting ‘‘controlled sub-
stances’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2)— 
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(i) by striking ‘‘made available not 
later’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘made 
available— 
‘‘(A) not later’’; 
(ii) by striking the period at the end 
and inserting a semicolon; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(B) in a format that allows the raw data to be 
queried and sorted for analytical purposes; and 
‘‘(C) in a manner such that the information 
may be accessed simultaneously by more than 1 user 
at each registered location of a specific manufac-
turer, distributor, or pharmacy.’’; and 
(C) in paragraph (3)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A), by striking 
‘‘registered manufacturers and distribu-
tors’’ and inserting ‘‘persons registered 
under section 303’’; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘registered manufacturer or distributor’’ 
and inserting ‘‘person registered under sec-
tion 303’’. 
(b) PENALTIES.— 
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