Title: Block, Report, And Suspend Suspicious Shipments Act of 2020
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Block, Report, And Suspend Suspicious Shipments Act of 2019
This bill creates additional requirements for drug manufacturers and distributors who discover a suspicious order for controlled substances.
In addition to reporting the suspicious order to the Drug Enforcement Administration, a manufacturer or distributor must also exercise due diligence and decline to fill the order.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3878 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3878

   To amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify the process for 
  registrants to exercise due diligence upon discovering a suspicious 
                     order, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 23, 2019

 Mr. McKinley (for himself and Mrs. Dingell) introduced the following 
 bill; which was referred to the Committee 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 jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify the process for 
  registrants to exercise due diligence upon discovering a suspicious 
                     order, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Block, Report, And Suspend 
Suspicious Shipments Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF PROCESS FOR REGISTRANTS TO EXERCISE DUE 
              DILIGENCE UPON DISCOVERING A SUSPICIOUS ORDER.

    (a) In General.--Paragraph (3) of section 312(a) of the Controlled 
Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 832(a)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(3) upon discovering a suspicious order or series of 
        orders--
                    ``(A) exercise due diligence;
                    ``(B) establish and maintain (for not less than a 
                period to be determined by the Administrator of the 
                Drug Enforcement Administration) a record of the due 
                diligence that was performed;
                    ``(C) decline to fill the order or series of orders 
                if the due diligence fails to dispel all of the 
                indicators that gave rise to the suspicion that filling 
                the order or series of orders would cause a violation 
                of this title by the registrant or the prospective 
                purchaser; and
                    ``(D) notify the Administrator of the Drug 
                Enforcement Administration and the Special Agent in 
                Charge of the Division Office of the Drug Enforcement 
                Administration for the area in which the registrant is 
                located or conducts business of--
                            ``(i) each suspicious order or series of 
                        orders discovered by the registrant; and
                            ``(ii) the indicators giving rise to the 
                        suspicion that filling the order or series of 
                        orders would cause a violation of this title by 
                        the registrant or the prospective purchaser.''.
    (b) Applicability.--Section 312(a)(3) of the Controlled Substances 
Act, as amended by subsection (a), shall apply beginning on the day 
that is 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act. Until such 
day, section 312(a)(3) of the Controlled Substances Act shall apply as 
such section 312(a)(3) was in effect on the day before the date of 
enactment of this Act.
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