Fentanyl Penalties Parity Act

Fentanyl Penalties Parity Act

This bill modifies the drug quantity thresholds that trigger a mandatory minimum prison term for a defendant who manufactures, distributes, imports, exports, or possesses with intent to distribute fentanyl.

Specifically, the bill reduces from 400 to 20 grams the fentanyl quantity and from 100 to 5 grams the fentanyl analogue quantity that trigger a mandatory minimum prison term for high-level first-time or repeat offenders. It also reduces from 40 to 2 grams the fentanyl quantity and from 10 to 0.5 grams the fentanyl analogue quantity that trigger a mandatory minimum prison term for low-level first-time or repeat offenders.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5694 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5694

 To reduce the threshold for mandatory minimum penalties for fentanyl-
related offenses under the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled 
       Substances Import and Export Act, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 22, 2021

Mr. Grothman (for himself, Mr. Tiffany, and Mr. Fitzgerald) introduced 
    the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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 reduce the threshold for mandatory minimum penalties for fentanyl-
related offenses under the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled 
       Substances Import and Export Act, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fentanyl Penalties Parity Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT.

    Section 401(b)(1) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 
841(b)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)(vi)--
                    (A) by striking ``400'' and inserting ``20'';
                    (B) by striking ``100'' and inserting ``5''; and
                    (C) by inserting ``scheduled or unscheduled'' 
                before ``analogue of''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (B)(vi)--
                    (A) by striking ``40'' and inserting ``2'';
                    (B) by striking ``10'' and inserting ``0.5''; and
                    (C) by inserting ``scheduled or unscheduled'' 
                before ``analogue of''.

SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS TO THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES IMPORT AND EXPORT ACT.

    Section 1010(b) of the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act 
(21 U.S.C. 960(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(F)--
                    (A) by striking ``400'' and inserting ``20'';
                    (B) by striking ``100'' and inserting ``5''; and
                    (C) by inserting ``scheduled or unscheduled'' 
                before ``analogue of''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2)(F)--
                    (A) by striking ``40'' and inserting ``2'';
                    (B) by striking ``10'' and inserting ``0.5''; and
                    (C) by inserting ``scheduled or unscheduled'' 
                before ``analogue of''.
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