Stop Fentanyl Border Crossings Act

Stop Fentanyl Border Crossings Act

This bill authorizes the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to restrict migration and imports from foreign countries to prevent the introduction of illicit drugs into the United States.

Current law authorizes HHS to restrict migration and imports from foreign countries to prevent the introduction of communicable diseases. Under this bill, HHS may also restrict migration and imports from a country if HHS determines that the existence of substantial illicit drug smuggling from that country poses a risk to public health.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3959 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3959

  To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide the Secretary of 
 Health and Human Services with the authority to suspend the right to 
  introduce certain persons or property into the United States in the 
                     interest of the public health.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 30, 2022

   Mr. Hagerty (for himself, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Risch, Mr. Lee, and Mrs. 
  Blackburn) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide the Secretary of 
 Health and Human Services with the authority to suspend the right to 
  introduce certain persons or property into the United States in the 
                     interest of the public health.

    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 ``Stop Fentanyl Border Crossings 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF PUBLIC HEALTH.

    Section 362 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 265) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``Whenever the'' and inserting the 
        following:
    ``(a) In General.--Whenever the''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) Suspensions Relating to Illicit Drugs.--Whenever the 
Secretary determines that by reason of the existence of substantial 
illicit drug smuggling from a foreign country there is serious danger 
of the introduction of such drugs into the United States, and that this 
danger is so increased by the introduction of persons or property from 
such country that a suspension of the right to introduce such persons 
and property is required in the interest of the public health, the 
Secretary, in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Secretary, 
shall have the power to prohibit, in whole or in part, the introduction 
of persons and property from such countries or places as he shall 
designate in order to avert such danger, and for such period of time as 
he may deem necessary for such purpose.''.
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