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Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to add as schedule I controlled substances: (1) any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains specified cannabimimetic agents (or the salts, isomers, or salts of isomers thereof); and (2) specified additional hallucinogenic substances (or the salts, isomers, or salts of isomers thereof).
Extends the period for which the Attorney General may temporarily schedule a substance in schedule I to avoid an imminent hazard to public safety to two years with a one-year extension (currently, one year with a six-month extension).
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 1254 as passed House amended on Dec 8, 2011. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Dec 8, 2011
Synthetic Drug Control Act
Passed · Two-thirds required
317 Yea 98 Nay 18 not voting
Crossed both parties 98 of 415 voting members broke with their own party: 82 Democrats, 16 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
433 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 1254 and vote against it. 11 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 1254 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
50 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.