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The bill strengthens traceability and law-enforcement ability to disrupt diversion of pill-making equipment, at the cost of compliance and retrofit expenses for manufacturers and owners and potential legal risk for downstream buyers/resellers.
Law enforcement will be better able to identify, track, and prosecute diversion of tableting/encapsulating machines and parts used to produce illegal drugs, improving investigations and public safety.
Manufacturers, distributors, and sellers must permanently mark and record serial numbers on tableting/encapsulating machines, improving traceability of equipment and making it harder for traffickers to evade detection.
The Attorney General must issue regulations and retrofitting guidance within 180 days and allow guidance-based compliance for older equipment, providing a clear implementation timeline and a pathway to comply for existing machines.
Manufacturers and sellers will face compliance costs to affix serial numbers, keep records, and update reporting systems, raising business expenses that may be passed on to buyers.
Owners of existing machines may incur retrofit costs and operational disruption to bring older equipment into compliance even with AG guidance, imposing one-time and potentially significant expenses.
Criminal liability for possession or transport of machines with removed or altered serial numbers could ensnare buyers or resellers who unknowingly handle noncompliant equipment, creating legal risk for ordinary businesses.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires permanent serial numbers, recordkeeping, and reporting for tableting/encapsulating machines and critical parts; makes tampering and knowing possession of tampered items unlawful and directs AG to issue regulations within 180 days.
Official title: To amend the Controlled Substances Act to require regulated persons to identify tableting machines and encapsulating machines by serial number.
Introduced October 31, 2025 by Harriet Hageman · Last progress October 31, 2025
Requires manufacturers, distributors, sellers, importers, exporters, deliverers, and brokers of tableting and encapsulating machines (and specified critical parts) to permanently affix, record, and report serial numbers and identifying information to the Attorney General; makes removing or altering required serial numbers and knowing possession/transport of items with removed/altered serial numbers unlawful when there is reasonable cause to believe a serial number was required. Directs the Attorney General to issue implementing regulations within 180 days and to provide guidance for retrofitting existing machines and parts; the rules apply to items manufactured, distributed, sold, imported, exported, delivered, or otherwise transferred after the regulations take effect. The law expands the definition of who is regulated, creates definitions for critical parts and punch/die components, updates recordkeeping and reporting duties, and clarifies criminal penalties tied to removed or altered serial numbers when there is reasonable cause to suspect a serial number should have been present.