HR 747
Passed a chamber
Expands U.S. sanctions authority to cover Chinese companies and officials who enable illicit fentanyl trafficking, while barring sanctions on imported goods under this Act.
Official title: Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 2025
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
28-JAN-2025
Referred
28-JAN-2025
Approved by committee
05-MAR-2025
Reported
21-MAR-2025
Passed
02-SEP-2025
Senate
Received
03-SEP-2025
- Expands the Fentanyl Sanctions Act definition of foreign opioid trafficker to include Chinese entities that fail to prevent opioid trafficking and Chinese officials who aid it through intentional inaction.
- Requires the President to report whether the heads of four named Chinese agencies are foreign opioid traffickers, and changes a 5-year period in the identification process to 10 years.
- Requires annual written evaluations of international drug trafficking emergencies and adds cost-benefit analysis and termination criteria to related regulations under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
- States a nonbinding sense of Congress that China should tighten precursor chemical controls, and bars sanctions on the importation of goods.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (28-JAN-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 02-SEP-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Judiciary Committee (House)
- Oversight and Government Reform Committee (House)
- Financial Services Committee (House)
- Foreign Affairs Committee (House)
- Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee (Senate)
International Affairs
■ 7 R■ 2 D
7 Republicans
2 Democrats