US HB4396 | 2015-2016 | 114th Congress

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 35-0)
Status: Introduced on January 28 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-03-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

Heroin and Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention and Reduction Act This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to revise requirements for and limitations on practitioners who dispense narcotic drugs for maintenance or detoxification treatment. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must establish grant programs to: (1) encourage prescribing and purchase of opioid overdose reversal drugs (e.g., naloxone), and (2) develop prescribing guidelines for such drugs. (Opioids are drugs with effects similar to opium, such as heroin or certain pain medications.) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must provide support to improve drug overdose surveillance and reporting capabilities. HHS may support syringe exchange programs. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration must provide support to: (1) reduce drug overdose deaths; and (2) develop, expand, and enhance substance use recovery support services. This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to extend residential treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women. The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment must: (1) carry out a pilot program to support services for pregnant and postpartum women with a substance use disorder; (2) award grants to expand treatment activities in areas with a high rate of, or a rapid increase in, the use of opioids; and (3) support increasing the capacity of substance use disorder services for adolescents. This bill amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and Internal Revenue Code to direct HHS and the Departments of Labor and the Treasury to require disclosures, issue guidance, conduct audits, and publish information regarding the requirement for group health plans and health insurance coverage to have parity between mental health and substance use disorder benefits and medical and surgical benefits. HHS must establish a consumer parity portal website. HHS must establish a loan repayment program for substance use disorder health professionals.

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Title

Heroin and Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention and Reduction Act

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History

DateChamberAction
2016-03-23HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
2016-03-23HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
2016-03-23HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
2016-02-04HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2016-02-03HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
2016-01-29HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2016-01-28HouseReferred to House Education and the Workforce
2016-01-28HouseReferred to House Ways and Means
2016-01-28HouseReferred to House Judiciary
2016-01-28HouseReferred to House Energy and Commerce
2016-01-28HouseReferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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.
2016-01-28HouseIntroduced in House

Same As/Similar To

HB2536 (Related) 2015-06-16 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
HB3680 (Related) 2016-05-12 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
HB3691 (Related) 2016-05-12 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
HB4276 (Related) 2016-03-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
SB1455 (Related) 2016-04-27 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 441.
SB2226 (Related) 2015-11-03 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
HB4435 (Related) 2016-02-10 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
SB2562 (Related) 2016-02-22 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
HB4982 (Related) 2016-05-12 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Subjects

Accounting and auditing
Administrative remedies
Child health
Disability and health-based discrimination
Drug therapy
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Employee benefits and pensions
Family services
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Higher education
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Licensing and registrations
Medical education
Mental health
Prescription drugs
State and local government operations
Student aid and college costs
Women's health

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