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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 780
To authorize the court to make an advisory statement under certain
circumstances, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY28, 2025
Mr. I
SSA(for himself, Mr. KILEYof California, and Mr. OBERNOLTE) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju-
diciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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 com-
mittee concerned
A BILL
To authorize the court to make an advisory statement under
certain circumstances, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Alexandra’s Law Act 4
of 2025’’. 5
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SEC. 2. CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ADVISORY STATEMENT. 1
Section 401 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 2
U.S.C. 841) is amended by adding at the end the fol-3
lowing: 4
‘‘(i) A
DVISORYSTATEMENT.— 5
‘‘(1) C
ONVICTION.—Any person who is con-6
victed of, or enters a plea of guilty or no contest, to 7
an offense under this section with respect to which 8
death occurred, may be charged with homicide. 9
‘‘(2) C
OURT ADVISING.—A court shall advise 10
any person who is convicted of, or enters a plea of 11
guilty or no contest to, an offense under this section 12
involving N-phenyl-N-[1-(2-phenylethyl)-4- 13
piperidinyl] propanamide, or an analogue thereof, 14
exchanged for anything of value, with respect to 15
which death occurred, of the following: 16
‘‘‘You are hereby advised that all illicit drugs and counter-17
feit pills are dangerous to human life and become even 18
deadlier when they are, sometimes unknowingly, mixed 19
with substances such as fentanyl and analogues of 20
fentanyl. People can and have died from these substances, 21
even in very small doses. It is extremely dangerous and 22
deadly to human life to sell or administer drugs, in any 23
form, when not lawfully authorized to do so. If you do 24
so in the future and a person dies as a result of that ac-25
tion, and you knew or should have known that the sub-26
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stance you provided contained fentanyl or a fentanyl ana-1
logue, you may be charged with an offense under section 2
1111 or 1112 of title 18, United States Code. This convic-3
tion will be considered by a judge or jury as to whether 4
you knew or should have known that the substance you 5
provided to the decedent contained fentanyl.’. 6
‘‘(3) E
VIDENCE.— 7
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—Except as provided in 8
paragraph (4), in the case of a defendant who 9
is charged with an offense under section 1111 10
of 1112 of title 18, United States Code, with 11
respect to a death involving N-phenyl-N-[1-(2- 12
phenylethyl)-4-piperidinyl] propanamide or an 13
analogue thereof, exchanged for anything of 14
value, a previous conviction for, or a plea of 15
guilty or no contest to, an offense under this 16
section involving N-phenyl-N-[1-(2-phenylethyl)- 17
4-piperidinyl] propanamide, or an analogue 18
thereof, in exchange for anything of value, with 19
respect to which death occurred, may be used 20
as evidence that the defendant had knowledge 21
that the substance provided to the decedent 22
contained N-phenyl-N-[1-(2-phenylethyl)-4- 23
piperidinyl] propanamide or an analogue there-24
of. 25
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‘‘(B) ADMISSION OF STATE COURT AC -1
KNOWLEDGMENT .—Any sworn statement used 2
in State court that is substantially similar to 3
the statement in paragraph (2) shall be admis-4
sible in a Federal court. 5
‘‘(C) A
DMISSION OF FEDERAL COURT AC -6
KNOWLEDGMENT .—Any sworn statement in 7
paragraph (2) may be admissible in a State 8
court. 9
‘‘(4) E
XCEPTION.—Paragraph (3) shall not 10
apply to the prosecution of an individual who was a 11
minor at the time at which the individual committed 12
the offense.’’. 13
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