US Congress Senate Bill 425 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)
Status: Introduced on February 7 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-07 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Imposes a one cent per milligram fee on the sale of active opioids by the manufacturer, producer, or importer. The fee excludes prescription drugs used exclusively for the treatment of opioid addiction as part of a medically assisted treatment effort. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must establish a program to provide rebates or discounts to cancer and hospice patients to ensure that they do not pay the fee. Any increase in federal revenues from the fee after rebates and discounts are subtracted must be distributed to states under the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant program. The states must use the funds exclusively for substance abuse (including opioid abuse) efforts in the states, including (1) specified treatment programs, and (2) the recruitment and training of substance use disorder professionals to work in rural and medically underserved communities. HHS must report to Congress on the impact of this bill on the retail cost of opioids and patient access to opioid medication, the effectiveness of the discount or rebate for cancer and hospice patients, how the funds are being used to improve substance abuse treatment efforts, and suggestions for improving access to opioids for cancer and hospice patients and substance abuse treatment efforts.

Budgeting for Opioid Addiction Treatment Act

Sen. Joe Manchin [D-WV]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Angus King [I-ME]
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Margaret Hassan [D-NH]
Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Tina Smith [D-MN]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-07	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB4793 (Same As) 2019-10-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/425/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s425/BILLS-116s425is.pdf