SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Medical Controlled 
Substances Transportation Act of 2022’’. 
SEC. 2. REGISTRATION FOR TRANSPORT OF CONTROLLED 
SUBSTANCES TO STATES IN WHICH THE 
PRACTITIONER IS NOT REGISTERED UNDER 
THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT FOR 
THE PURPOSE OF ADMINISTERING THE SUB-
STANCES AT LOCATIONS OTHER THAN PRIN-
CIPAL PLACES OF BUSINESS OR PROFES-
SIONAL PRACTICE. 
Section 303 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 
U.S.C. 823) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(l) REGISTRATION
FOR
TRANSPORT
OF
CON-
TROLLED SUBSTANCES TO STATES IN WHICH THE PRAC-
TITIONER IS NOT REGISTERED FOR THE PURPOSE OF 
ADMINISTERING THE SUBSTANCES AT LOCATIONS OTHER 
THAN PRINCIPAL PLACES
OF BUSINESS
OR PROFES-
SIONAL PRACTICE.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—Upon application by a 
practitioner (other than a pharmacy) who is reg-
istered under subsection (f), the Attorney General 
shall issue a separate registration to the practitioner 
authorizing the practitioner— 
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‘‘(A) to transport one or more controlled 
substances in schedule II, III, IV, or V from 
the practitioner’s registered location in a State 
to one or more States in which the practitioner 
is not registered under subsection (f) for the 
purpose of the practitioner administering the 
substances at locations other than a principal 
place of business or professional practice; and 
‘‘(B) to so administer the substances. 
‘‘(2) REQUIREMENTS.—For a practitioner to be 
authorized to transport and administer controlled 
substances pursuant to a registration issued under 
paragraph (1), all of the following conditions must 
be satisfied: 
‘‘(A) The practitioner must be licensed, 
registered, or otherwise permitted by the State 
in which the controlled substances are adminis-
tered to carry out such activity at the location 
where it occurs. 
‘‘(B) The practitioner must— 
‘‘(i) limit the time of transport and 
administering of any controlled substance 
pursuant to such registration to not more 
than 72 consecutive hours; and 
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‘‘(ii) by the conclusion of such 72 
hours, return any such controlled sub-
stance so transported but not administered 
to the registered location from which such 
substance was obtained. 
‘‘(C)(i) The practitioner must maintain 
records of the transporting and administering 
of any controlled substance pursuant to this 
subsection. 
‘‘(ii) Such records shall be maintained, in 
accordance with the requirements of section 
307(b), at the practitioner’s registered location 
from which the controlled substances were ob-
tained and shall include— 
‘‘(I) the location where the controlled 
substance was administered; and 
‘‘(II) such other information as may 
be required by regulation of the Attorney 
General with respect to records for dis-
pensers of controlled substances. 
‘‘(iii) Notwithstanding clause (ii), the ex-
ception in subsection 307(c)(1)(B) shall not 
apply to records required by this subparagraph. 
‘‘(3) GROUNDS FOR DENIAL OR REVOCATION.— 
The Attorney General may deny an application for 
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registration under this subsection, or a renewal 
thereof, or revoke such registration, based on the 
criteria listed in section 304(a), except that the ap-
plicant shall not be required, as a condition of ini-
tially obtaining such registration, to present proof of 
State authorization to administer controlled sub-
stances. 
‘‘(4) AUTOMATIC
TERMINATION.—A registra-
tion issued under this subsection shall automatically 
terminate if the practitioner no longer has an active 
registration under subsection (f) due to revocation, 
suspension, surrender, or other termination. 
‘‘(5) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 
‘registered location’ means, with respect to each reg-
istration issued to a practitioner under subsection 
(f), the address that appears on the certificate of 
registration.’’. 
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