6 U.S.C. § 225 — Reports, evaluations, and research regarding drug interdiction at and between ports of entry

(a) Research on additional technologies to detect fentanyl. Within 1 year after December 23, 2022, the Secretary of Homeland Security, working with the Attorney General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, must research new technology to: target and detect illegal fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, and precursor chemicals - including low-purity fentanyl, especially in fake pressed pills, and illegal pill press molds; and improve detection of those fake pills using nonintrusive, noninvasive, and other advanced screening tools. (b) Evaluation of current technologies and strategies. (1) In general. The Secretary, working with the same officials, must set up a program to gather data and build metrics measuring how well the technologies and strategies used by DHS, Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and other relevant federal agencies detect trafficked illegal fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, and precursor chemicals, or deter them from being trafficked into the U.S. at and between land, air, and sea ports of entry. (2) Considerations. This data-and-metrics program may look at: how often illegal fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, and precursor chemicals are detected at ports of entry; investigations and intelligence-sharing about where these drugs come from inside the U.S.; and any other data or metrics the Secretary thinks fit. (3) Updates. The Secretary, working with those same officials, may update the program as needed. (4) Reports. (A) Secretary of Homeland Security. Within 1 year after December 23, 2022, and every two years after that, the Secretary must send several named House and Senate committees a report - based on the program's data and metrics - that examines current and pilot technologies deployed at land, air, and sea ports of entry, and separately between land ports of entry, to see how well they detect, deter, interdict, and address illegal fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, and precursor chemicals. (B) Government Accountability Office. Within 1 year after each of the first three reports under (A) is submitted, the Comptroller General must send the same committees a report evaluating - and, where appropriate, recommending improvements to - how the data is collected under the program and the metrics used in those later reports.