Title: Fentanyl Trafficker Elimination Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Fentanyl Trafficker Elimination Act
This bill increases the term of imprisonment for drug trafficking offenses involving large quantities of fentanyl or fentanyl analogues.
Specifically, the bill requires life imprisonment for illegally importing or exporting, or illegally manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, or possessing with intent to manufacture, distribute, or dispense, 400 grams or more of fentanyl or 100 grams or more of a fentanyl analogue, regardless of prior offenses or if death or serious bodily injury occurs. (Currently, such offenses carry a minimum sentence of 10 years imprisonment and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment for a first offense; penalties increase with subsequent offenses or if death or serious bodily injury occurs.)

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6439 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6439

To amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide for life imprisonment 
    for certain offenses involving Fentanyl, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 20, 2022

Mr. Burchett (for himself, Mr. Tiffany, Mr. Guest, and Mr. Fitzpatrick) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 
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 provide for life imprisonment 
    for certain offenses involving Fentanyl, 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 ``Fentanyl Trafficker Elimination 
Act''.

SEC. 2. LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES INVOLVING FENTANYL.

    (a) Controlled Substances Act.--Section 401(b)(1) of the Controlled 
Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 841(b)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by repealing clause (vi); and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(F) In the case of a violation of subsection (a) 
                of this section involving 400 grams or more of a 
                mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of 
                N-phenyl-N-[1-(2-phenylethyl)-4-piperidinyl] 
                propanamide or 100 grams or more of a mixture or 
                substance containing a detectable amount of any 
                analogue of N-phenyl-N-[1-(2-phenylethyl)-4-
                piperidinyl] propanamide, such person shall be 
                sentenced to imprisonment for life.''.
    (b) Controlled Substances Import and Export Act.--Section 1010(b) 
of the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act (21 U.S.C. 960(b)) 
is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by repealing subparagraph (F); and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(8) In the case of a violation of subsection (a) 
        involving 400 grams or more of a mixture or substance 
        containing a detectable amount of N-phenyl-N-[1-(2-
        phenylethyl)-4-piperidinyl] propanamide or 100 grams or more of 
        a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of any 
        analogue of N-phenyl-N-[1-(2-phenylethyl)-4-piperidinyl] 
        propanamide, such person shall be sentenced to imprisonment for 
        life.''.
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