Fight Illicit Pill Presses Act of 2024
This bill requires manufacturers and distributors of pill-making machines (tableting and encapsulating machines) to permanently affix a serial number to each device. It directly affects companies that produce or sell these machines, mandating the serial number be on a nonremovable part. The law also prohibits removing, altering, or hiding these serial numbers, and bans transporting or possessing such machines with tampered numbers. Regulations implementing these requirements must be issued within 180 days of the bill's enactment, applying only to machines sold after those rules take effect.
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Sep 2024
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Introduced Sep 11, 2024
Last action Sep 11, 2024
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Sep 11, 2024
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Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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.
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Sep 11, 2024
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1 primary · 4 co-sponsors
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