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HR 747 · in committee · significant

Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • This bill adds Chinese entities and officials to those subject to sanctions for involvement in fentanyl trafficking.
  • It affects Chinese drug traffickers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and government officials who enable opioid trafficking.
  • The bill extends reporting requirements through 2029 and requires cost-benefit analysis before emergency drug-trafficking regulations.

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    How would sanctioning Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturers affect the cost and availability of legitimate medications in the United States?

  2. 02

    What evidence exists that Chinese government officials are directly enabling fentanyl trafficking rather than Chinese criminal organizations acting independently?

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    How would the cost-benefit analysis requirement for emergency drug-trafficking regulations potentially delay or change the government's response to opioid crises?

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Introduced 2025-09-03

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-09-03 · senate · IntroReferral

    Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

  2. 2025-09-02 · house · Floor

    Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

  3. 2025-09-02 · house · Floor

    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). (text: CR H3728-3729)

  4. 2025-09-02 · Floor

    Passed/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).

  5. 2025-09-02 · house · Floor

    Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H3741-3742)

  6. 2025-09-02 · house · Floor

    At 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.

  7. 2025-09-02 · house · Floor

    DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 747.

  8. 2025-09-02 · house · Floor

    Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3728-3731)

  9. 2025-09-02 · house · Floor

    Mr. Baumgartner moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

  10. 2025-04-09 · house · Committee

    Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Voice Vote.

  11. 2025-04-09 · house · Committee

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  12. 2025-03-21 · house · Committee

    Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 119-19, Part I.

  13. 2025-03-21 · Committee

    Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 119-19, Part I.

  14. 2025-03-05 · house · Committee

    Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 49 - 0.

  15. 2025-03-05 · house · Committee

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  16. 2025-01-28 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred 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.

  17. 2025-01-28 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred 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.

  18. 2025-01-28 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred 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.

  19. 2025-01-28 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred 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.

  20. 2025-01-28 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  21. 2025-01-28 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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