To amend the Department of Energy Research and Innovation Act to direct the Secretary of Energy to coordinate with certain Federal officials to conduct research, development, testing, and evaluation of novel technologies to detect fentanyl vapor or particles in support of rapid screening of the mails, at prisons, at United States borders, and in other related use cases, and for other purposes.

What Would Change

Currently, the Department of Energy is not specifically directed to work with other agencies to develop new ways to detect fentanyl. If this bill becomes law, the Department of Energy would be required to start a new program to research and test advanced technologies for finding fentanyl vapor and particles. This program would involve close teamwork with the Department of Justice, Homeland Security, and the U.S. Postal Service. This means a new, coordinated federal effort would be established to develop these detection tools.