Fight Illicit Pill Presses Act
Sponsored By: Senator John Cornyn
Introduced
Summary
Mandatory serial-number regime for tableting and encapsulating machines and their key parts would be created to help trace equipment and curb illicit pill production. It would also expand who federal drug rules treat as a regulated person and make tampering a federal offense.
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- Manufacturers and sellers would have to engrave, cast, or permanently affix a serial number to machines and to critical parts defined to include an upper punch, a lower punch, and a die.
- Brokers and international traders would be added to the definition of regulated persons when they handle listed chemicals, these machines, or critical parts.
- Regulators and law enforcement would get a new tracking tool. The Attorney General would have 180 days to issue implementing rules and guidance for devices manufactured on or before enactment.
- Removing or altering a required serial number or knowingly moving a device with a tampered number would be a new prohibited federal act.
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New serial rules for pill presses
If enacted, the bill would require serial numbers on tableting and encapsulating machines and their key parts. Makers, sellers, importers, exporters, and brokers would be newly treated as "regulated persons". Regulated transactions must include the item's serial number in reports. The Attorney General would write implementing rules within 180 days of enactment. Rules would say how to mark older machines and numbers added before enactment that follow the guidance would count. The serial rules would only apply to items after the rules take effect. The bill would make it illegal to remove, alter, or hide required serial numbers. It would also ban knowingly moving, selling, or possessing machines or parts with altered or missing serials.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
John Cornyn
TX • R
Cosponsors
Christopher Coons
DE • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Jerry Moran
KS • R
Sponsored 9/18/2025
John Fetterman
PA • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Thomas Tillis
NC • R
Sponsored 9/18/2025
Amy Klobuchar
MN • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
David McCormick
PA • R
Sponsored 9/30/2025
Ruben Gallego
AZ • D
Sponsored 9/30/2025
Maria Cantwell
WA • D
Sponsored 10/28/2025
Marsha Blackburn
TN • R
Sponsored 10/28/2025
Shelley Capito
WV • R
Sponsored 1/6/2026
Catherine Cortez Masto
NV • D
Sponsored 1/6/2026
Cindy Hyde-Smith
MS • R
Sponsored 2/12/2026
Angus King
ME • I
Sponsored 2/12/2026
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