H.R. 27 · 119th Congress · Crime and law enforcement
HALT Fentanyl Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Feb 6, 2025
Roll call ↗312
108
Passed the House.
Passed the House on February 6, 2025.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
- IntroducedJan 3, 2025
- CommitteeJan 3, 2025
- Passed HouseFeb 6, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 61
- 2 Democrats, 58 Republicans, 1 Independent
- Committees
- Senate Committee on the JudiciaryHouse Committee on the JudiciaryHouse Committee on Energy and Commerce
- Lobbying
- At least 23
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
The bill permanently places the entire class of fentanyl-related substances into Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, February 6, 2025
Yea unless marked
R · House · AL-4
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
The bill permanently places the entire class of fentanyl-related substances into Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. It adds a new Schedule I entry covering any material containing a fentanyl-related substance, and defines that term by five categories of chemical modification to the fentanyl molecule, so that new analogues are controlled by class rather than one at a time. The existing mandatory trafficking penalties in the Controlled Substances Act and the import and export statute are extended to fentanyl-related substances. Alongside the scheduling, the bill sets up faster registration for researchers who want to study Schedule I substances: a notice-based process to begin research, no separate registration for additional researchers at the same institution, a single registration covering related research sites in the same city or county, no new inspection required when adding a substance in the same or a higher-numbered schedule, continuation of research when a substance is newly scheduled, and limited small-scale manufacturing tied to the research, though not the growing of marijuana. The Attorney General must issue implementing rules within six months and may do so as interim final rules. The bill also states that its penalty changes apply as of enactment and expresses agreement with the interpretation in United States v. McCray.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 23 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 65 quarterly reports filed by 6 lobbying firms and by 16 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
8 of those filings did not cite this bill by number. They named a short title it shares with its Senate companion, S 331, so the reference belongs to the pair rather than to one chamber’s vehicle.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: National Association of Police Organizations, Inc.; National Council for Behavioral Health; American Society of Anesthesiologists; National Troopers Coalition; American Society of Addiction Medicine. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 18 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.