Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 2025
Introduced Jan 28, 2025 by Rep. Andy Barr
The House passed it. The Senate has to pass it before it can reach the President.
This bill subjects certain Chinese entities and government officials to potential sanctions related to opioid trafficking and requires the President to conduct certain preliminary analyses before regulating economic transactions in the event of a national emergency related to international drug trafficking.
Specifically, for the purposes of the Fentanyl Sanctions Act, the bill changes the definition of foreign opioid trafficker to specify that the term includes (1) Chinese entities involved in the production or sale of synthetic opioids or related pharmaceutical ingredients that fail to take steps to detect or prevent opioid trafficking; and (2) certain senior Chinese government officials that aid and abet opioid trafficking, including through intentional inaction. Under current law, the President must impose certain sanctions on individuals and entities identified as foreign opioid traffickers.
Further, the bill extends through 2029 an existing requirement that the President report to Congress annually on identified foreign opioid traffickers and any sanctions imposed on them. (This requirement expired in December 2024.)
The bill also requires the President to take additional steps in issuing regulations under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) pursuant to a declared national emergency related to international drug trafficking. (IEEPA authorizes the President to regulate a variety of economic transactions following a declaration of national emergency.) Under the bill, the President must evaluate the costs and benefits of issuing economic regulations for the purpose of resolving the drug trafficking emergency and publish a discussion of such costs and benefits.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service.
- Sep 3, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
- Sep 2, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Sep 2, 2025On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 407 - 4 (Roll no. 220). (text: CR H3728-3729)
- Sep 2, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 407 - 4 (Roll no. 220).
- Sep 2, 2025Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H3741-3742)
- Sep 2, 2025At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
- Sep 2, 2025DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 747.
- Sep 2, 2025Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3728-3731)
- Sep 2, 2025Mr. Baumgartner moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Apr 9, 2025Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Voice Vote.
- Apr 9, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Mar 21, 2025Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 119-19, Part I.
- Mar 5, 2025Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 49 - 0.
- Mar 5, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Jan 28, 2025Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary, 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.
- Jan 28, 2025Introduced in House