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S. 3250 116th Congress Senate

DHS Opioid Detection Resilience Act of 2020

Official title: A bill to ensure U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, agents, and other personnel have adequate synthetic opioid detection equipment, that the Departme… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to ensure U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, agents, and other personnel have adequate synthetic opioid detection equipment, that the Department of Homeland Security has a process to update synthetic opioid detection capability, and for other purposes.

Introduced: July 30, 2020 Introduced by: John Cornyn Republican · Texas See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Feb 4, 2020
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 Latest action February 4, 2020

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

DHS Opioid Detection Resilience Act of 2020

This bill establishes new requirements related to the detection of illicit narcotics at ports of entry.

Specifically, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) must implement a strategy to ensure chemical screening devices are able to identify narcotics at purity levels equal to or less than 10%, or provide an alternate method for identifying narcotics at lower purity levels. The CBP must also test new chemical screening devices at various purity levels before it commits to their acquisition.

Additionally, the Department of Homeland Security must implement a plan for the long-term development of a centralized spectral database for chemical screening devices.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 4761 DHS Opioid Detection Resilience Act of 2019
 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Democratic 2 Republican 2
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Kennedy, John
Louisiana · Dec 8, 2020
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Hassan, Margaret Wood
New Hampshire · Sep 8, 2020
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Cassidy, Bill
Louisiana · Jul 30, 2020
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Rosen, Jacky
Nevada · Feb 4, 2020
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3250: DHS Opioid Detection Resilience Act of 2020. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3250/
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"S. 3250: DHS Opioid Detection Resilience Act of 2020." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3250/.
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S. 3250, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3250/.
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