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Adds new reporting, funding authorizations, and operational authorities aimed at increasing federal and regional efforts to prevent, seize, interdict, and prosecute fentanyl-related trafficking. It requires High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) programs to provide new fentanyl-focused reports, authorizes HIDTA funding for 2025–2030, expands HIDTA purposes to include fentanyl interdiction assistance, and directs the Attorney General to set up temporary reassignment authority and a prioritization process for fentanyl investigations and prosecutions.
The changes are mainly enforcement and program-authorizing: they increase data and reporting requirements for HIDTAs, create a framework for reallocating DOJ personnel to fentanyl cases temporarily, and authorize multi-year support for HIDTA activities focused on fentanyl interdiction and prosecution. The bill does not itself appropriate money but authorizes spending and requires DOJ implementation steps to prioritize fentanyl work.
Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced April 17, 2025 by David J. Taylor · Last progress April 17, 2025
HIDTA Enhancement Act