Title: Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl Analogues Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl Analogues Act
This bill adds five fentanyl analogues and the entire category of fentanyl-related substances to schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. A schedule I controlled substance is a drug, substance, or chemical that has a high potential for abuse; has no currently accepted medical value; and is subject to regulatory controls and administrative, civil, and criminal penalties under the Controlled Substances Act.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1622 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1622

    To amend the Controlled Substances Act to list fentanyl-related 
            substances as schedule I controlled substances.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 22, 2019

Mr. Johnson (for himself, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Cassidy, Mrs. Blackburn, and 
  Ms. Ernst) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Controlled Substances Act to list fentanyl-related 
            substances as schedule I controlled substances.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl 
Analogues Act''.

SEC. 2. FENTANYL-RELATED SUBSTANCES.

    Section 202(c) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812) is 
amended--
            (1) by adding at the end of subsection (b) of Schedule I 
        the following:
            ``(23) Isobutyryl fentanyl.
            ``(24) Para-Methoxybutyrylfentanyl.
            ``(25) Valeryl fentanyl.
            ``(26) Cyclopentyl fentanyl.
            ``(27) Para-Chloroisobutyryl fentanyl.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end of Schedule I the following:
    ``(e)(1) Unless specifically exempted or unless listed in another 
schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which 
contains any quantity of fentanyl-related substances, or which contains 
their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers whenever the existence of 
such salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible within the 
specific chemical designation.
    ``(2) In paragraph (1), the term `fentanyl-related substances' 
includes the following:
            ``(A) Any substance that is structurally related to 
        fentanyl by one or more of the following modifications:
                    ``(i) By replacement of the phenyl portion of the 
                phenethyl group by any monocycle, whether or not 
                further substituted in or on the monocycle.
                    ``(ii) By substitution in or on the phenethyl group 
                with alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxy, hydroxy, halo, haloalkyl, 
                amino or nitro groups.
                    ``(iii) By substitution in or on the piperidine 
                ring with alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxy, ester, ether, 
                hydroxy, halo, haloalkyl, amino or nitro groups.
                    ``(iv) By replacement of the aniline ring with any 
                aromatic monocycle whether or not further substituted 
                in or on the aromatic monocycle.
                    ``(v) By replacement of the N-propionyl group by 
                another acyl group.
            ``(B) 4'-Methyl acetyl fentanyl.
            ``(C) Crotonyl fentanyl.
            ``(D) 2'-Fluoro ortho-fluorofentanyl.
            ``(E) Ortho-Methyl acetylfentanyl.
            ``(F) Thiofuranyl fentanyl.
            ``(G) Ortho-Fluorobutyryl fentanyl.
            ``(H) Ortho-Fluoroacryl fentanyl.
            ``(I) Beta-Methyl fentanyl.
            ``(J) Phenyl fentanyl.
            ``(K) Para-Methylfentanyl.
            ``(L) Beta'-Phenyl fentanyl.
            ``(M) Benzodioxole fentanyl.''.
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