To amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide for enhanced penalties for trafficking in fentanyl, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-6057
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Grothman, Glenn [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2018-06-08
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing

Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Latest action: action_date: 2018-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-06-08
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to impose a mandatory minimum prison term on a defendant who commits a low-level first-time or repeat offense involving the manufacture, distribution, or possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance containing two or more grams of fentanyl.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6057 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 8, 2018 Mr. Grothman 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 A BILL To amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide for enhanced penalties for trafficking in fentanyl, and for other purposes.

1. Enhanced penalties for trafficking in fentanyl Section 401(b)(1)(B) of the Controlled Substances Act ( 21 U.S.C. 841(b)(1)(B) ) is amended— (1) in clause (vi), by striking or at the end; (2) in clause (vii), by striking or at the end; (3) in clause (viii), by adding or at the end; and (4) by inserting after clause (viii) the following: (ix) 2 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, its salts, optical and geometric isomers, and salts of isomers; .