STOP Fentanyl and Xylazine Act

Bill: 119-hr-1563
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Crockett, Jasmine [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2025-02-25
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing

Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Latest action: action_date: 2025-02-25
text: 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.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-02-25
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Safeguarding Testing and Overdose Prevention Against Fentanyl and Xylazine Act or the STOP Fentanyl and Xylazine Act</strong></p><p>This bill exempts the possession, sale, purchase, import, export, or transport of equipment that tests for the presence of fentanyl or xylazine from criminal penalties under the Controlled Substances Act.</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1563 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 25, 2025 Ms. Crockett (for herself and Mr. Gooden ) 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 clarify that the possession, sale, purchase, importation, exportation, or transportation of drug testing equipment that tests for the presence of fentanyl or xylazine is not unlawful.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Safeguarding Testing and Overdose Prevention Against Fentanyl and Xylazine Act or the STOP Fentanyl and Xylazine Act . 2. Clarification regarding the treatment of equipment that indicates the presence of fentanyl or xylazine in a compound Section 422 of the Controlled Substances Act ( 21 U.S.C. 863 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (g) Clarification This section does not apply to the possession, sale, purchase, importation, exportation, or transportation of equipment for which the intended use is to indicate the presence of fentanyl or xylazine in a compound. .