119th Congress · introduced in the Senate · Mar 5, 2025
BUST FENTANYL Act
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Latest action (Apr 28, 2025): Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 54.
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Congressional Research Service summary, version: Introduced in Senate (Mar 5, 2025)
Break Up Suspicious Transactions of Fentanyl Act or the BUST FENTANYL Act
This bill revives a requirement for the President to identify foreign opioid traffickers and extends opioid trafficking sanctions to new categories of foreign persons (individuals and entities) whose actions support such trafficking.
Specifically, the bill revives through 2030 a requirement that the President annually submit a report to Congress identifying foreign opioid traffickers. (For those listed in the report, the President must select certain sanctions to impose on them, such as bans on loans, foreign exchange transactions, and property transactions.) The bill also specifies that such reports must prioritize the identification of Chinese nationals and entities involved in the shipment of fentanyl, fentanyl-related chemicals, and fentanyl manufacturing equipment to Mexico or any other country involved in the production of fentanyl trafficked to the United States.
The bill extends such foreign opioid trafficker sanctions to additional categories of foreign persons, including those that have knowingly (1) engaged in significant activities or financial transactions that materially contributed to opioid trafficking; or (2) provided financial, material, or technological support for such activities or transactions.
The bill also authorizes the President to impose these sanctions on foreign government entities, including government owned or controlled financial institutions, that are involved in activities that contribute to opioid trafficking. Additionally, the President may impose property-blocking sanctions on senior officials of these foreign government entities who knowingly facilitate such activities.
Includes amendment, cloture, and procedural votes. Each is labeled with its exact question; only a passage question is a vote to pass the bill.
No recorded roll calls on this bill in coverage.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 54.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Risch without amendment. Without written report.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Risch without amendment. Without written report.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Introduced in Senate
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Asia · China · Congressional oversight · Department of Justice · Drug trafficking and controlled substances · Executive agency funding and structure · Foreign and international banking · Foreign property · Fraud offenses and financial crimes · International organizations and cooperation · Latin America · Mexico · Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents · Sanctions · Smuggling and trafficking
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RSM US LLP · lobbying firm or registrant: RSM US LLP (FORMERLY KNOWN AS MCGLADREY LLP)
2026 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026) · posted Oct 20, 2026 · issue area: Government Issues
$250,000
Spent on own lobbying
S.4448 - Accelerating Broadband Permits Act issues related to creating tools for tracking the progress of BEAD grant recipients S. 860 issues related to broadband infrastructure projects
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RSM US LLP · lobbying firm or registrant: RSM US LLP (FORMERLY KNOWN AS MCGLADREY LLP)
2026 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026) · posted Jul 19, 2026 · issue area: Government Issues
$150,000
Spent on own lobbying
…ant Secretary to help executive agencies improve compliance with the statutory deadline for processing communications use applications, and for other purposes. S. 860 This bill makes specified changes to processes for federal review of certain communications and broadband infrastructure projects. Specifically, the bill requi…
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FDD ACTION · lobbying firm or registrant: FDD ACTION
2025 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2025 – Sep 30, 2025) · posted Oct 20, 2025 · issue area: Banking
$170,000
Spent on own lobbying
…all provisions. S. 63, CBW Fentanyl Act, all provisions. S. 744, Maintaining American Superiority by Improving Export Control Transparency Act, all provisions. S. 860, Break Up Suspicious Transactions of (BUST) Fentanyl Act, all provisions. S. 886, FARMLAND Act of 2025, all provisions. Issues related to Anti-Money Laundering…
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FDD ACTION · lobbying firm or registrant: FDD ACTION
2025 Q1 report (Jan 1, 2025 – Mar 31, 2025) · posted Apr 21, 2025 · issue area: Banking
$150,000
Spent on own lobbying
…vation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act of 2025, all provisions. S. 556, Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act, all provisions. S. 63, CBW Fentanyl Act, all provisions. S. 860, Break Up Suspicious Transactions of (BUST) Fentanyl Act, all provisions. S.Res. 81, A resolution calling on the United Kingdom, France, and Germany (E3) to in…
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