H.R. 9540 (IH) - Fight Illicit Pill Presses Act of 2024

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9540 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9540

To amend the Controlled Substances Act to require regulated persons to 
   identify tableting machines and encapsulating machines by serial 
                                number.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 11, 2024

Ms. Hageman (for herself, Ms. Stansbury, Mr. Fry, Mr. Crenshaw, and Mr. 
Harder of California) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
    to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the 
Committee on 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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to require regulated persons to 
   identify tableting machines and encapsulating machines by serial 
                                number.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fight Illicit Pill Presses Act of 
2024''.

SEC. 2. REGULATION OF CERTAIN MACHINES.

    (a) Regulation.--
            (1) In general.--Section 310(a) of the Controlled 
        Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 830(a)) is amended by adding at the 
        end the following:
    ``(4) Each regulated person who manufactures, distributes, 
delivers, sells, imports, or exports a tableting machine or an 
encapsulating machine shall identify the tableting machine or 
encapsulating machine by means of a serial number that is engraved, 
cast, or otherwise permanently affixed to a nonremovable part of the 
tableting machine or encapsulating machine.''.
            (2) Regulations.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
        enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall promulgate 
        regulations carrying out the amendments made by paragraph (1).
            (3) Effective date.--The amendments made by paragraph (1) 
        shall apply only to any tableting machine or encapsulating 
        machine manufactured, distributed, delivered, sold, imported, 
        or exported after the effective date of the regulations 
        promulgated under paragraph (2).
    (b) Prohibited Acts.--Section 403(a) of the Controlled Substances 
Act (21 U.S.C. 843(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (8), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (9), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(10) to remove, alter, or obliterate any serial number 
        affixed to a tableting machine or encapsulating machine; or
            ``(11) to transport, ship, receive, or possess any 
        tableting machine or encapsulating machine that is required to 
        have a serial number, knowing that the serial number has been 
        removed, altered, or obliterated.''.
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