Marc Fischer Memorial Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 1046 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1046 To require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 6, 2025 Mr. Bacon (for himself, Mr. Horsford, Mr. Moore of Alabama, Mr. Moskowitz, Mrs. Miller of West Virginia, Mr. Pappas, Mr. Weber of Texas, and Mr. Cuellar) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to develop and implement a strategy to interdict fentanyl and other synthetic drugs in the mail at Federal correctional facilities. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Marc Fischer Memorial Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act'' or the ``Marc Fischer Memorial Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) The Bureau of Prisons has 122 institutions located throughout the United States, employs nearly 38,000 employees, and is responsible for more than 150,000 Federal inmates. (2) Inmate mail is a primary entry point for smuggling drugs into correctional facilities, with tainted mail incidents also on the rise. (3) Elimination of dangerous contraband, including synthetic drugs, in mail is essential to protecting the health and safety of employees of the Bureau of Prisons and Federal inmates. (4) Prisons in the United States are increasingly deadly facilities, with a 600 percent rise in drug overdoses in recent years. (5) The introduction of synthetic drugs, particularly fentanyl and fenta