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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
The bill improves traceability of tableting/encapsulating machines and aids law enforcement by requiring permanent serial-numbering and recordkeeping, but it imposes compliance and retrofit costs on manufacturers and owners and raises the risk of criminal exposure for unwitting buyers or resellers.
Law enforcement agencies can more easily identify and track diversion of tableting/encapsulating machines and parts, improving investigations and prosecutions of illicit drug manufacturing.
Manufacturers, distributors, and sellers must permanently mark and record serial numbers on tableting/encapsulating machines, improving traceability of equipment used to produce illegal drugs and reducing the ability to conceal illicit supply chains.
Manufacturers and owners get a clear implementation timeline and compliance pathway—the Attorney General must issue regulations and retrofitting guidance within 180 days and allow guidance-based compliance for older equipment—reducing regulatory uncertainty.
Manufacturers, sellers, and current owners will incur compliance and retrofit costs to affix serial numbers, maintain records, and update reporting systems; retrofits and system changes may cause operational disruption and higher prices that could be passed to buyers or taxpayers.
Buyers, resellers, and other handlers risk criminal liability for possession or transport of machines with removed or altered serial numbers even if they unknowingly acquired noncompliant equipment, creating legal exposure and potential business harm.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires serial numbers, recordkeeping, and reporting for tableting/encapsulating machines and specified critical parts, and bans removal/alteration of required serial numbers.
Requires manufacturers, distributors, importers, exporters, sellers, deliverers, and brokers of tableting machines, encapsulating machines, listed chemicals, and specified "critical parts" to permanently affix and record serial numbers and to include those serial numbers in reports to the Attorney General. Directs the Attorney General to issue implementing regulations within 180 days and to provide guidance for retrofitting serial numbers on existing machines and parts. Makes removal or alteration of required serial numbers, and knowing possession or transport of items with removed/altered serial numbers when there is reasonable cause to believe a serial number was required, a federal offense. The new rules apply to machines and parts manufactured, distributed, delivered, sold, imported, or exported after the Attorney General's regulations become effective.