Dark Web Interdiction Act of 2025
Congress targets dark web opioid delivery with new federal crime, tougher sentencing, and FBI-led task force
Stalled
No legislative action in over 90 days.
Legislative Progress
Key Points
- Makes it a federal crime to knowingly deliver or sell controlled substances using hidden dark web marketplaces, unless legally authorized.
- Adds tougher punishment for dark web drug cases by directing federal sentencing guidelines to increase the sentence level by 2 steps.
- Creates a Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement Task Force inside the FBI to find, disrupt, and shut down illegal dark web markets.
- The task force would train and support federal, state, tribal, local, and international partners on investigations, digital forensics, and evidence sharing.
- Requires yearly reports to Congress and a separate report on how virtual currencies are used to finance opioid sales on the dark web; the task force ends after 5 years.
Impact Analysis
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Milestones
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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Introduced in House
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Source Information
Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Dark Web Interdiction Act of 2025
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