Congress orders study of fentanyl testing in emergency rooms.
S. 921 — Tyler’s Law · Filed by Jim Banks (R-IN) · 13 cosponsors · Introduced Mar 10, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill tells the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study fentanyl testing in hospital emergency rooms. The study will look at what stops hospitals from testing, what it costs, and what good it does. Within 9 months, the Secretary must give hospitals guidance. The guidance will say whether hospitals should test all overdose patients for fentanyl. The bill does not require testing.
Who it affects
Hospital emergency departments will be studied. The guidance could help hospitals treat overdose patients better. The bill does not cost citizens money.
One thing to notice
The bill asks for research and guidance, not a rule hospitals must follow.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
13 cosponsors: 7 Democrats, 6 Republicans.
- Mar 10, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Mar 10, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions”
- Jan 15, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature…”
- Mar 23, 2026 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1559-1560; text: CR S1559-1560)”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
3 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 6 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $649,627 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 22 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 61% of bills with any report.
Jim Banks, who sponsored the bill, received $553,626 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American College of Emergency Physicians — $468,727 in 1 report
- Emergency Nurses Association — $140,900 in 3 reports
- Emergency Nurses Association — $40,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- fentanyl — A strong drug that causes overdoses and deaths.
- guidance — Advice or recommendations, not a rule that must be followed.
- Secretary of Health and Human Services — The government official who leads health and medical programs.
- 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.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (3,382 characters) on Jul 10, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,522 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 17, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-21.
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