H.R. 747: Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 2025
Sponsor
Andy Barr
Republican · KY-6
What H.R. 747 does
H.R. 747 would widen who can face U.S. sanctions over opioid trafficking. It would change the definition of a foreign opioid trafficker under the Fentanyl Sanctions Act to include Chinese companies that make or sell synthetic opioids or the ingredients for them and fail to take steps to detect or prevent trafficking. It would also cover senior Chinese government officials who aid and abet trafficking, including through intentional inaction. Current law already requires the President to impose sanctions on people identified as foreign opioid traffickers.
The bill would extend through 2029 the President's annual report to Congress on identified traffickers and the sanctions imposed, a requirement that expired in December 2024. It would also require the President, before issuing economic regulations under a national emergency on international drug trafficking, to weigh and publish the costs and benefits of those regulations.
How the House voted
Passed · September 2, 20254 Democrats broke with their party to vote no
Summer Lee
Ilhan Omar
Delia Ramirez
Lateefah SimonOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended: H R 747 Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act · Roll no. 220 · Official record
HR747 Legislative Journey
Committee Action
Sep 3, 2025
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
House: Vote: 407-4
Sep 2, 2025
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). (text: CR H3728-3729)
House: Vote Held
Apr 9, 2025
Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Voice Vote.
House: Committee Action
Mar 21, 2025
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 119-19, Part I.
House: Vote: 49-0
Mar 5, 2025
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 49 - 0.
House: Committee Action
Jan 28, 2025
Referred 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.
About the Sponsor
Andy Barr
Republican, Kentucky's 6th congressional district · 13 years in Congress
Committees: House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, Financial Services, Foreign Affairs
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Cosponsors (9)
This bill has 9 cosponsors: 2 Democrats, 7 Republicans, reflecting bipartisan support. Cosponsors represent 7 states: California, Florida, Iowa, and 4 more.
Committee Sponsors
Judiciary Committee
0 of 44 committee members cosponsored
No committee members have cosponsored this bill
Financial Services Committee
4 of 54 committee members cosponsored
Oversight and Government Reform Committee
1 of 47 committee members cosponsored
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
0 of 24 committee members cosponsored
No committee members have cosponsored this bill
Foreign Affairs Committee
3 of 53 committee members cosponsored
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What laws does H.R. 747 change?
1 changes
Sections Amended
Section 203 of International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702)
adding at the end the following: ``(d) Periodic Evaluation
H.R. 747 Quick Facts
- Committee
- Judiciary
- Chamber
- House
- Policy
- International Affairs
- Introduced
- Jan 28, 2025
Passed the House, received in Senate
Sep 3, 2025
H.R. 747 Bill Text
“To impose sanctions with respect to Chinese producers of synthetic opioids and opioid precursors, to hold Chinese officials accountable for the spread of illicit fentanyl, and for other purposes.”
Source: U.S. Government Publishing Office
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