BUST FENTANYL Act
Summary
Break Up Suspicious Transactions of Fentanyl Act or the BUST FENTANYL Act This bill revives a requirement for the President to identify foreign opioid traffickers and extends opioid trafficking sanctions to new categories of foreign persons (individuals and entities) whose actions support such trafficking. Specifically, the bill revives through 2030 a requirement that the President annually submit a report to Congress identifying foreign opioid traffickers. (For those listed in the report, the President must select certain sanctions to impose on them, such as bans on loans, foreign exchange transactions, and property transactions.) The bill also specifies that such reports must prioritize the identification of Chinese nationals and entities involved in the shipment of fentanyl, fentanyl-related chemicals, and fentanyl manufacturing equipment to Mexico or any other country involved in the production of fentanyl trafficked to the United States. The bill extends such foreign opioid trafficker sanctions to additional categories of foreign persons, including those that have knowingly (1) engaged in significant activities or financial transactions that materially contributed to opioid trafficking; or (2) provided financial, material, or technological support for such activities or transactions. The bill also authorizes the President to impose these sanctions on foreign government entities, including government owned or controlled financial institutions, that are involved in activities that contribute to opioid trafficking. Additionally, the President may impose property-blocking sanctions on senior officials of these foreign government entities who knowingly facilitate such activities.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Mar 5, 2025
Last action Apr 28, 2025
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
5
Key actions
2
Committee
3
Apr 28, 2025
Upper · Passed
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Risch without amendment. Without written report.
upper
Mar 27, 2025
Upper · Passed
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
upper
Mar 5, 2025
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
upper
Mar 5, 2025
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
James E. Risch
RRepublican
Co
Bill Hagerty
RRepublican
Co
Christopher A. Coons
DDemocratic
Co
Jeanne Shaheen
DDemocratic
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