US Congress House Bill 4733 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-6)
Status: Introduced on December 21 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-01-03 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Opioids and STOP Pain Initiative Act This bill establishes and provides funds for the Opioids and STOP Pain Initiative at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support pain-related research, including: understanding pain, therapies for chronic pain, and alternatives to opioids for pain treatment as directed in the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016; improving options and evidence for medication-assisted treatment and opioid overdose reversal treatments; and supporting the Federal Pain Research Strategy. NIH must establish the Pain Therapy Screening Program to award grants to support the development of new pre-clinical models for pain disorders, and the application of these models in drug, device, or other therapy screening.

Opioids and STOP Pain Initiative Act

Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]	Rep. David McKinley [R-WV]	Sen. Ruben Gallego [D-AZ]	Rep. Ro Khanna [D-CA]
Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]	Rep. Peter King [R-NY]	Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY]	Rep. John Larson [D-CT]
Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]	Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD]	Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]
Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]	Rep. Ann Kuster [D-NH]	Rep. John Duncan [R-TN]	Rep. Debbie Dingell [D-MI]
Rep. Alexander Mooney [R-WV]	Rep. John Culberson [R-TX]	Rep. Seth Moulton [D-MA]	Rep. Julia Brownley [D-CA]
Rep. Elizabeth Esty [D-CT]	Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Conor Lamb [D-PA]
Rep. Evan Jenkins [R-WV]	Rep. Beto O'Rourke [D-TX]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]
Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-01-03	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2017-12-22	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2017-12-21	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Ways and Means, 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.
2017-12-21	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Ways and Means, 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.
2017-12-21	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Ways and Means, 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.
2017-12-21	House	Introduced in House

SB2260 (Related) 2017-12-21 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
HB5531 (Related) 2018-05-22 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4733/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr4733/BILLS-115hr4733ih.pdf