DETECT Nitazenes Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3093 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3093

To require the Science and Technology Directorate in the Department of 
 Homeland Security to work with the Drug Enforcement Agency to develop 
 greater capacity to detect, identify, and disrupt illicit substances, 
             such as nitazenes, in very low concentrations.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 3, 2025

Mr. Schmitt (for himself, Mr. McCormick, Mr. Ricketts, Mr. Gallego, and 
 Ms. Slotkin) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Science and Technology Directorate in the Department of 
 Homeland Security to work with the Drug Enforcement Agency to develop 
 greater capacity to detect, identify, and disrupt illicit substances, 
             such as nitazenes, in very low concentrations.

    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 ``Detection Equipment and Technology 
Evaluation to Counter the Threat of Nitazenes Act of 2025'' or the 
``DETECT Nitazenes Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. ENHANCING THE CAPACITY TO DETECT AND IDENTIFY DRUGS SUCH AS 
              NITAZENES.

    Section 302(15) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
182(15)) is amended, in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by 
striking ``fentanyl and xylazine'' and inserting ``fentanyl, xylazine, 
and nitazenes''.
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