# 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.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: abuse_accountability. Category: justice_truth. Lane tag: general equity.
Lane: cost_benefit_analysis. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: executive_emergency_powers. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: foreign_policy. Category: war_peace. Lane tag: prudential.
Lane: opioid_trafficking. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: sanctions. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: good. A yea supports the bill. A nay is the penalized direction when the tag is scored as a protection. A yea on a credit tag is a credit.
Roll 220: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill's operative purpose is to sanction and restrain opioid trafficking, a named and grave harm to human life, and it adds a cost-benefit publication duty that limits executive use of IEEPA emergency powers. It does not advance any moral harm. Its foreign-policy and sanctions mechanics are prudential, so the classification is good rather than a hard verdict on every provision.
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.

## Recorded votes

Roll 220: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Yea 407 · Nay 4 · Other 19.

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