STOP Fentanyl Act
Summary
Standardizing Thresholds Of Penalties for Fentanyl Act or the STOP Fentanyl Act This bill reduces the drug quantity thresholds that trigger a mandatory minimum prison term for a defendant who manufactures, distributes, imports, exports, or possesses with intent to distribute fentanyl. The bill also creates enhanced criminal penalties for certain violations involving fentanyl that was imported along the U.S.-Mexico border. Specifically, the bill reduces from 400 to 5 grams the fentanyl quantity and from 100 to 0.05 grams the fentanyl analogue quantity that trigger a mandatory minimum prison term for high-level first-time or repeat offenders. It also reduces from 40 to 0.5 grams the fentanyl quantity and from 10 to 0.005 grams the fentanyl analogue quantity that trigger a mandatory minimum prison term for low-level first-time or repeat offenders. Additionally, the bill creates enhanced mandatory minimum prison terms for importing or exporting fentanyl that was imported along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2023
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Jan 12, 2023
Last action Jan 20, 2023
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Total actions
3
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0
Committee
2
Jan 20, 2023
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
lower
Jan 12, 2023
Committee
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.
lower
Jan 12, 2023
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 65 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Glenn Grothman
RRepublican
Co
A. Drew Ferguson IV
RRepublican
Co
Aaron Bean
RRepublican
Co
Alexander X. Mooney
RRepublican
Co
Andy Barr
RRepublican
Co
Andy Biggs
RRepublican
Co
Anna Paulina Luna
RRepublican
Co
Austin Scott
RRepublican
Co
Barry Moore
RRepublican
Co
Bill Huizenga
RRepublican
Co
Bill Posey
RRepublican
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