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118th Congress International Affairs

S. 1271: FEND Off Fentanyl Act

ReportedJun 22, 2023

  1. Introduced (completed)Apr 25, 2023
  2. Passed Senate (not reached)
  3. Passed House (not reached)
  4. To the President (not reached)
  5. Became law (not reached)

Summary

Reported to Senate, Jun 22, 2023

This bill requires or authorizes various actions, including sanctions, targeting foreign persons (individuals and entities) engaged in trafficking of fentanyl and other illicit opioids.

This bill requires that the sanctions specified in Executive Order 14059 (relating to sanctions on foreign persons involved in the global illicit drug trade), as well as any amendments to or directives issued pursuant to that executive order before the date of the enactment of this bill, shall remain in effect.

The bill also requires the President to impose property-blocking sanctions on any foreign person knowingly involved in (1) significant trafficking of fentanyl, fentanyl precursors, or other related opioids including such trafficking by a transnational criminal organization; or (2) significant activities of a transnational criminal organization relating to the trafficking of fentanyl, fentanyl precursors, or other related opioids.

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The Department of the Treasury is authorized to take certain actions relating to financial institutions, classes of transactions, or types of accounts that (1) involve a non-U.S. jurisdiction, and (2) are of primary money laundering concern in connection with illicit opioid trafficking. For such institutions, transaction classes, or account types, Treasury may require domestic financial institutions to (1) take certain special measures, (2) prohibit certain transmittals of funds, or (3) impose conditions on transmittals of funds.

Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network must issue guidance to U.S. financial institutions for filing reports of suspicious transactions related to suspected fentanyl trafficking by transnational criminal organizations.

Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.

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Amendments

0 offered

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Cosponsors

68

Bipartisan support.

Who scored on this bill

38 points earned
  1. 1Tim Scott R-SC SponsorDrew cross-party cosponsors, introduced, reached a cosponsor milestone, reported5 events+38
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History

  1. Apr 25, 2023Introduced in the Senate by Tim Scott.
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  1. Apr 9, 2024Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 118-550.
  2. Jan 11, 2024Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
  3. Jun 22, 2023Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Reported by Senator Brown with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
  4. Jun 22, 2023Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 114.
  5. Jun 21, 2023Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
  6. May 31, 2023Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 118-448.
  7. Apr 25, 2023Introduced in Senate
  8. Apr 25, 2023Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.