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H.R. 747: Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 2025

Passed HouseSep 2, 2025

  1. Introduced (completed)Jan 28, 2025
  2. Passed House (completed)Sep 2, 2025, 407–4
  3. Passed Senate (not reached)
  4. To the President (not reached)
  5. Became law (not reached)

Summary

Introduced in House, Jan 28, 2025

This bill subjects certain Chinese entities and government officials to potential sanctions related to opioid trafficking and requires the President to conduct certain preliminary analyses before regulating economic transactions in the event of a national emergency related to international drug trafficking.

Specifically, for the purposes of the Fentanyl Sanctions Act, the bill changes the definition of foreign opioid trafficker to specify that the term includes (1) Chinese entities involved in the production or sale of synthetic opioids or related pharmaceutical ingredients that fail to take steps to detect or prevent opioid trafficking; and (2) certain senior Chinese government officials that aid and abet opioid trafficking, including through intentional inaction. Under current law, the President must impose certain sanctions on individuals and entities identified as foreign opioid traffickers.

Further, the bill extends through 2029 an existing requirement that the President report to Congress annually on identified foreign opioid traffickers and any sanctions imposed on them. (This requirement expired in December 2024.)

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The bill also requires the President to take additional steps in issuing regulations under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) pursuant to a declared national emergency related to international drug trafficking. (IEEPA authorizes the President to regulate a variety of economic transactions following a declaration of national emergency.) Under the bill, the President must evaluate the costs and benefits of issuing economic regulations for the purpose of resolving the drug trafficking emergency and publish a discussion of such costs and benefits.

Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.

Key votes

House final vote, Sep 2, 2025

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended

Passed 407–4

Yea 407two-thirds 274Nay 4

  • Democrats198 yea, 4 nay
  • Republicans208 yea, 0 nay
  • Independents1 yea, 0 nay

Broke with their party: Lateefah Simon (D-CA), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Summer Lee (D-PA) voted Nay

See how all 411 members voted

Showing 430 of 430 members

Yea 407

Republicans (208)

Democrats (198)

Independents (1)

Nay 4

Democrats (4) broke with their party

Not voting 19

Senate

Not yet voted

Passed the House Sep 2, 2025. Awaiting Senate action.

Roll calls

1 vote on this bill

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  • Sep 2, 2025HouseOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as AmendedFinal passagePassed, yea-nay 407–4
    Roll call 220 tally by party
    PartyYeaNayPresentNot voting
    Democrats1984010
    Republicans208009
    Independents1000
    Total4074019

    House roll call 220: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Passed.

    4 crossed party lines: 4 Democrats

    How each member voted (430)

Amendments

0 offered

No amendments were offered to this bill.

Cosponsors

9

Bipartisan support.

Who scored on this bill

128 points earned
  1. 1Garland Barr R-KY SponsorIntroduced, marked up, reported, drew cross-party cosponsors, passed House5 events+68
  2. 2Summer Lee D-PA1 maverick vote1 event+6
  3. 2Ilhan Omar D-MN1 maverick vote1 event+6
  4. 2Delia Ramirez D-IL1 maverick vote1 event+6
  5. 2Lateefah Simon D-CA1 maverick vote1 event+6
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History

  1. Sep 2, 2025Passed the House, 407–4.
  2. Jan 28, 2025Introduced in the House by Garland Barr.
Show the full action history (16 actions)
  1. Sep 3, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
  2. Sep 2, 2025Mr. Baumgartner moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
  3. Sep 2, 2025Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3728-3731)
  4. Sep 2, 2025DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 747.
  5. Sep 2, 2025At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
  6. Sep 2, 2025Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H3741-3742)
  7. Sep 2, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 407 - 4 (Roll no. 220).
  8. Sep 2, 2025On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 407 - 4 (Roll no. 220). (text: CR H3728-3729)
  9. Sep 2, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  10. Apr 9, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
  11. Apr 9, 2025Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Voice Vote.
  12. Mar 21, 2025Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 119-19, Part I.
  13. Mar 5, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
  14. Mar 5, 2025Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 49 - 0.
  15. Jan 28, 2025Introduced in House
  16. Jan 28, 2025Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary, 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.