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US. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
GPO
115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-755
JOINT TASK FORCE TO COMBAT OPIOID TRAFFICKING
ACT OF 2018
JUNE 14, 2018.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. MCCAUL, from the Committee on Homeland Security,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 5762]
The Committee on Homeland Security, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 5762) to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to au-
thorize a Joint Task Force to enhance integration of the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security's border security operations to detect,
interdict, disrupt, and prevent narcotics, such as fentanyl and other
synthetic opioids, from entering the United States, and for other
purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon
with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do
pass.
CONTENTS
Page
Purpose and Sum m ary ............................................................................................ 2
Background and Need for Legislation ................................................................... 2
H earings ................................................................................................................... 3
Com m ittee Consideration ........................................................................................ 3
C om m ittee V otes ...................................................................................................... 3
Com m ittee Oversight Findings .............................................................................. 3
New Budget Authority, Entitlement Authority, and Tax Expenditures ............. 3
Congressional Budget Office Estimate ................................................................... 3
Duplicative Federal Program s ............................................................................... 4
Congressional Earmarks, Limited Tax Benefits, and Limited Tariff Benefits ... 4
Federal M andates Statem ent ................................................................................. 4
Preem ption Clarification ........................................................................................ 4
Disclosure of Directed Rule M akings ..................................................................... 4
Advisory Com m ittee Statem ent .............................................................................. 4
Applicability to Legislative Branch ....................................................................... 4
Section-by-Section Analysis of the Legislation ..................................................... 4
Changes in Existing Law Made by the Bill, as Reported ..................................... 5
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