To amend the Controlled Substances Act with respect to the placing of certain substances on the schedules of controlled substances, and for other purposes.

Amends the Controlled Substances Act to modify the definition of "immediate precursor" to include a substance which the Attorney General has designated as the immediate chemical precursor of an anabolic steroid that has been scheduled as a controlled substance which either is a metabolite of a scheduled anabolic steroid or is transformed in the body directly into a scheduled anabolic steroid or the metabolite of a scheduled anabolic steroid.

Authorizes the Attorney General to place the immediate precursor of a scheduled anabolic steroid in the same schedule as that anabolic steroid or in any other schedule with a higher numerical designation (without regard to specified requirements, including the requirement that a substance promote muscle growth). States that once such an immediate precursor is placed in a schedule, it becomes a controlled substance and the Attorney General may schedule an immediate precursor of that substance.

Authorizes the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy to undertake education programs at the grade and high school levels to highlight the harmful effects of steroids and steroid precursor use by youths. Requires the Director to use funds made available for such programs for existing State and local anti-drug programs, primarily for education programs that directly communicate with teachers, principals, coaches, and children at the school level on the harmful effects of steroids and steroid precursors.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
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[H.R. 5564 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5564

 To amend the Controlled Substances Act with respect to the placing of 
 certain substances on the schedules of controlled substances, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 7, 2002

  Mr. Sweeney (for himself and Mr. Osborne) introduced the following 
 bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and 
 in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary and Education and the 
 Workforce, 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 with respect to the placing of 
 certain substances on the schedules of controlled substances, and for 
                            other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SCHEDULING OF CERTAIN SUBSTANCES.

    (a) Definition.--Section 102(23) of the Controlled Substances Act 
(21 U.S.C. 802(23)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(A)'' and inserting ``(B)(i)'';
            (2) by striking ``(B)'' and inserting ``(ii);
            (3) by striking ``(C)'' and inserting ``(iii); and
            (4) by inserting after ``means a substance--'' the 
        following new subparagraph:
                    ``(A) which the Attorney General has found to be, 
                and by regulation designated as being, the immediate 
                chemical precursor of an anabolic steroid that has been 
                scheduled as a controlled substance (hereinafter in 
                this subparagraph referred to as ``scheduled anabolic 
                steroid'') which either is a metabolite of a scheduled 
                anabolic steroid or is transformed in the body directly 
                into a scheduled anabolic steroid or the metabolite of 
                a scheduled anabolic steroid; or''.
    (b) Placement on Schedule.--Section 201(e) of the Controlled 
Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 811(e)) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``or for the immediate precursor of a 
        scheduled anabolic steroid, without regard to the requirements 
        of section 102(41), including the requirement that the 
        substance promote muscle growth'' after ``section 202(b)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following: ``However, once an 
        immediate precursor described in section 102(23)(A) is placed 
        in a schedule pursuant to this section, it becomes a controlled 
        substance and the Attorney General may schedule an immediate 
        precursor of that substance in accordance with this section.

SEC. 2. AT-RISK EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR GRADE AND HIGH SCHOOL TEENAGERS.

    (a) In General.--The Director of the Office of National Drug 
Control Policy (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 
``Director'') is authorized to undertake education programs at the 
grade and high school levels to highlight the harmful effects of 
steroids and steroid precursor use by youths.
    (b) Target Requirements.--The Director shall, to the maximum extent 
feasible, use amounts made available to carry out subsection (a) for 
existing State and local antidrug programs. Furthermore, funds made 
available for this purpose shall be used primarily on education 
programs that will directly communicate with teachers, principals, 
coaches, as well as grade and high school children at the school level 
on the harmful effects of steroids and steroid precursors.
    (c) Authorization.--There is authorized to be appropriated for 
programs under section 2(a) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2003, 
$15,000,000 for fiscal year 2004, and $17,500,000 for fiscal year 2005.
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