Death Penalty for Dealing Fentanyl Act of 2022
This bill authorizes the death penalty for certain fentanyl-related offenses that result in death.
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide for punishment for 
 the knowing distribution of fentanyl, if death results, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Death Penalty for Dealing Fentanyl 
Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. KNOWING DISTRIBUTION OF FENTANYL WHERE DEATH RESULTS.

    Part D of the Controlled Substances Act is amended by adding at the 
end the following:

``SEC. 424. KNOWING DISTRIBUTION OF FENTANYL WHERE DEATH RESULTS.

    ``Any person who knowingly violates section 401(a)(1) or section 
416 by distributing, possessing with intent to distribute, or 
manufacturing fentanyl shall, if death results, be punished--
            ``(1) by death or imprisonment for any term of years or for 
        life; and
            ``(2) by a fine under title 18, United States Code.''.
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Death Penalty for Dealing Fentanyl Act of 2022
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide for punishment for the knowing distribution of fentanyl, if death results, and for other purposes.
Death Penalty for Dealing Fentanyl Act of 2022
Rep. Gosar, Paul A.