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The HALT Fentanyl Act, passed by the House and Senate with bipartisan support, will reschedule fentanyl as a Schedule I drug. The rescheduling of fentanyl will lead to harsher sentences for those
President Donald Trump signed the HALT Fentanyl Act, which aims to combat the fentanyl crisis into law, during an event in the East Room of the White House. Trump was accompanied by various lawmakers and family members who have lost loved ones to the epidemic.
South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley was at the White House on July 16 as President Donald Trump signed fentanyl-related legislation.
The legislation classifies fentanyl as a Schedule I narcotics. Anyone caught trafficking the fentanyl-like substances face a mandatory minimum sentence of 12 years in federal prison. “So we take a historic step toward justice for every family touched by the fentanyl scourge,” Trump said.