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Technical Correction on Controlled Substances Dispensing

Section 4 · Sec. 4 ·

What this chapter is about

This part fixes pointers in an older law. That law pointed to part (g) of a rule. It should have pointed to part (h). The fix counts as if it had been there from the start.

1 proposal indexed from this chapter.

The document says “is amendedWho acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 4 in the PDF
What the document says

“Effective as if included in the enactment of Public Law 117-328-- (1) section 1252(a) of division FF of Public Law 117-328 (136 Stat. 5681) is amended, in the matter being inserted into section 302(e) of the Controlled Substances Act, by striking ``303(g)'' and inserting ``303(h)'';”

To amend the Controlled Substances Act with respect to the scheduling of fentanyl-related substances, and for other purposes, Sec. 4

The whole of section 4. In sections 1252(a), 1262 and 1263(b) of division FF of Public Law 117-328, references to section 303(g) of the Controlled Substances Act, and to paragraphs within it, are replaced by references to section 303(h). Paragraph (3) also replaces the citation (21 U.S.C. 823(g)(2)) with (21 U.S.C. 823(h)(2)). The correction is effective as if it had been included in Public Law 117-328 when that Act was enacted.

What the document actually says

“Effective as if included in the enactment of Public Law 117-328-- (1) section 1252(a) of division FF of Public Law 117-328 (136 Stat. 5681) is amended, in the matter being inserted into section 302(e) of the Controlled Substances Act, by striking ``303(g)'' and inserting ``303(h)'';”

To amend the Controlled Substances Act with respect to the scheduling of fentanyl-related substances, and for other purposes, Sec. 4
That sentence, in plain words

An older law is fixed. It pointed to part (g) of a rule. It now points to part (h). The fix counts as if it were there all along.

What this is about

The pointer was wrong when the older law passed. A wrong pointer can send a reader to the wrong rule. The same fix is made in twelve places.

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What This Page Covers, and What It Leaves Out

What the section does: it corrects cross references in three provisions of division FF of Public Law 117-328, and it makes the correction effective as if it had been included in that Act.

The correction is made in twelve places, listed in the section as paragraphs (1) through (3) with their subparagraphs and clauses. Each place makes the same change, from a reference to section 303(g) to a reference to section 303(h), so the places are counted here rather than recorded one by one.

The section works by amending division FF of Public Law 117-328, which is not indexed here, and the provisions it corrects are themselves amendments to the Controlled Substances Act. So nothing recorded says what any of those provisions said before this Act or reads as now.