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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2194 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act |
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| 6 | 6 | | of 1998 to reauthorize the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Pro- |
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| 7 | 7 | | gram and modify the Program with respect to promising practices, and |
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| 8 | 8 | | for other purposes. |
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| 9 | 9 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 10 | 10 | | MARCH18, 2025 |
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| 11 | 11 | | Mr. H |
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| 12 | 12 | | ARDERof California (for himself and Mr. MORAN) introduced the fol- |
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| 13 | 13 | | lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Gov- |
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| 14 | 14 | | ernment Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, |
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| 15 | 15 | | and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined |
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| 16 | 16 | | by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall |
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| 17 | 17 | | within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned |
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| 18 | 18 | | A BILL |
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| 19 | 19 | | To amend the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reau- |
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| 20 | 20 | | thorization Act of 1998 to reauthorize the High Intensity |
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| 21 | 21 | | Drug Trafficking Areas Program and modify the Pro- |
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| 22 | 22 | | gram with respect to promising practices, and for other |
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| 23 | 23 | | purposes. |
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| 24 | 24 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 25 | 25 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 26 | 26 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 27 | 27 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Ending Drug Traf-4 |
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| 28 | 28 | | ficking in Our Communities Act’’. 5 |
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| 31 | 31 | | •HR 2194 IH |
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| 32 | 32 | | SEC. 2. HIGH INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREAS PRO-1 |
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| 33 | 33 | | GRAM. 2 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (a) R |
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| 35 | 35 | | EAUTHORIZATION.—Section 707(p) of the Of-3 |
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| 36 | 36 | | fice of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act 4 |
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| 37 | 37 | | of 1998 (21 U.S.C. 1706(p)) is amended— 5 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (1) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘and’’; 6 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (2) in paragraph (6), by striking the period at 7 |
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| 40 | 40 | | the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 8 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (3) by adding at the end the following: 9 |
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| 42 | 42 | | ‘‘(7) $400,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 10 |
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| 43 | 43 | | through 2031.’’. 11 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (b) M |
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| 45 | 45 | | ODIFICATIONWITHRESPECT TOPROMISING 12 |
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| 46 | 46 | | P |
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| 47 | 47 | | RACTICES.—Section 707(q) of such Act (21 U.S.C. 13 |
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| 48 | 48 | | 1706(q)) is amended by adding at the end the following: 14 |
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| 49 | 49 | | ‘‘(4) P |
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| 50 | 50 | | ROMISING PRACTICES.—Beginning in fis-15 |
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| 51 | 51 | | cal year 2026, and each fiscal year thereafter, the 16 |
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| 52 | 52 | | Director shall do the following: 17 |
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| 53 | 53 | | ‘‘(A) For each promising practice that the 18 |
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| 54 | 54 | | Director identifies, review the promising prac-19 |
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| 55 | 55 | | tice to determine whether the promising prac-20 |
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| 56 | 56 | | tice has the potential to enhance the efficiency 21 |
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| 57 | 57 | | and effectiveness of the activities performed by 22 |
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| 58 | 58 | | means of a HIDTA, including the following: 23 |
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| 59 | 59 | | ‘‘(i) The identification and investiga-24 |
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| 60 | 60 | | tion of any entity that is responsible for 25 |
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| 63 | 63 | | •HR 2194 IH |
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| 64 | 64 | | trafficking an illegal drug that has resulted 1 |
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| 65 | 65 | | in an overdose in a HIDTA. 2 |
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| 66 | 66 | | ‘‘(ii) Information sharing and coordi-3 |
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| 67 | 67 | | nation for Federal, State, territorial, Trib-4 |
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| 68 | 68 | | al, and local responses to crimes that in-5 |
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| 69 | 69 | | volve an illegal drug and criminal use of a 6 |
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| 70 | 70 | | firearm. 7 |
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| 71 | 71 | | ‘‘(iii) The implementation and evalua-8 |
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| 72 | 72 | | tion of evidence-based substance use dis-9 |
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| 73 | 73 | | order prevention practices, programs, and 10 |
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| 74 | 74 | | strategies. 11 |
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| 75 | 75 | | ‘‘(B) For each promising practice that the 12 |
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| 76 | 76 | | Director determines to have such potential, de-13 |
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| 77 | 77 | | velop the promising practice for use by each 14 |
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| 78 | 78 | | HIDTA. 15 |
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| 79 | 79 | | ‘‘(C) Promulgate each promising practice 16 |
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| 80 | 80 | | developed under subparagraph (B) to each 17 |
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| 81 | 81 | | HIDTA.’’. 18 |
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