Fentanyl is a WMD Act

Bill: 119-hr-128
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Boebert, Lauren [R-CO-4]
Introduced: 2025-01-03
Policy area: Emergency Management
Latest action: action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-01-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Fentanyl is a WMD Act</strong></p><p>This bill requires the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office of the Department of Homeland Security to treat illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 128 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 3, 2025 Ms. Boebert introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security A BILL To require the Assistant Secretary for the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office of the Department of Homeland Security to treat illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Fentanyl is a WMD Act . 2. Treatment of illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction The Assistant Secretary for the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office of the Department of Homeland Security shall treat illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction for purposes of title XIX of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 590 et seq. ).