Bill

H.R. 747 (119th): Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 2025

Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 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.) 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.

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Recorded summary

The bill expands the Fentanyl Sanctions Act's definition of foreign opioid trafficker to include Chinese entities involved in synthetic opioid production or sale that fail to detect or prevent trafficking, and certain senior Chinese officials who aid or abet trafficking, including through intentional inaction. It extends through 2029 the annual presidential reporting requirement on identified foreign opioid traffickers and sanctions, which expired in December 2024. It also requires the President, before issuing IEEPA economic regulations under a declared drug-trafficking emergency, to evaluate and publish the costs and benefits of those regulations.

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Theological note: The bill addresses the serious moral harm of opioid trafficking, which causes death and bodily ruin, and the duty of rulers to restrain such harm through just means. It also touches on the proper limits of executive emergency economic power, where prudence and due accountability to Congress and the public matter. Its core issue relevance is restraint of a named harm, though the measure is mainly sanction machinery rather than a direct moral act.

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How this bill is scored

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Recorded votes

Roll 220 · 2-Sep-2025 7:03 PM · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended · Passed

Yea 407 · Nay 4 · Other 19

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