Bill tracks pill-making machines to stop fake fentanyl pills.

What it does

Machines that make pills must have serial numbers. The bill tracks who buys these machines. It makes tampering with machines a crime. It makes selling machines for fake pills illegal. The bill increases punishments for making counterfeit pills. The DEA must make an enforcement plan. The DEA reports to Congress every year.

Who it affects

Companies that make or sell pill machines must add serial numbers. People who make fake pills face bigger penalties. Citizens benefit because fake pills become harder to make.

One thing to notice

The Attorney General can add more machine parts to the rules later without naming them now. The law could expand to cover more equipment than it lists today.

From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.

Where it stands

• Mar 19, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
• Mar 19, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce and House Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a…”
• Jul 15, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
• Jul 21, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 43 - 6”
• Sep 15, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote”
• Sep 15, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Guthrie moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”

Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.

Money around this bill

1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.

Those reports show $260,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 25 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.

More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.

Gabe Evans, who sponsored the bill, received $1,580,467 from PACs for the 2026 election.

• American Society of Health-system Pharmacists — $260,000 in 1 report

Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.

Words to know

• counterfeit pills — Fake pills made to look like real medicine but containing dangerous drugs.
• fentanyl — A very strong synthetic opioid drug that causes many overdose deaths.
• DEA — The Drug Enforcement Administration, the federal agency that fights illegal drugs.
• serial numbers — Unique identification codes assigned to machines so they can be tracked.
• lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
• PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.