Bill Text: WV HR17 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Urging the President of the United States to appoint Dr. Rahul Gupta as the Director of the Office of National Drug Control

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-03-23 - Completed legislative action [HR17 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2021-HR17-Introduced.html

HOUSE RESOLUTION 17

(By Delegates Summers, Ellington, Rohrbach, and J. Pack)

[Introduced March 23, 2021]

 

Urging the President of the United States to appoint Dr. Rahul Gupta as the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Whereas, The Office of National Drug Control Policy is a component of the Executive Office of the President of the United States; and

Whereas, The mission of the Office of National Drug Control Policy is to reduce substance use disorder and its consequences by coordinating the nation’s drug control policy through the development and oversight of the National Drug Control Strategy and Budget; and

Whereas, The Office of National Drug Control Policy leads and coordinates the nation’s drug policy so that it improves the health and lives of the American people; and

Whereas, Dr. Rahul Gupta, MD, MPH, MBA, FACP, is the former public health commissioner for the state of West Virginia; and

Whereas, Dr. Rahul Gupta currently holds the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Medical and Health Officer of the March of Dimes. He is also the Interim Chief Scientific Officer for Research and Global Programs; and

Whereas, As Commissioner and State Health Officer in West Virginia, Dr. Gupta led the state’s opioid crisis response and launched several pioneering public health initiatives, such as the Birthscore program to identify high-risk infants; and

Whereas, Dr. Rahul Gupta, a specialist in internal medicine and preventive medicine, served as an academic faculty in Tennessee and Alabama before going to West Virginia originally in 2009 to lead the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department; and

Whereas, Dr. Rahul Gupta has extensive public health experience working in local, state, and federal governments, and working with and advising nonprofit organizations on local national, and international public health policy and programs; therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Delegates:

That the Senate hereby urges the President of the United States to appoint Dr. Rahul Gupta as the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the House of Delegates extends its full support to the nomination of Dr. Rahul Gupta as appoint Dr. Rahul Gupta as the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy; and

Further Resolved, That the House of Delegates strongly encourages West Virginia’s congressional delegation to support the nomination of Dr. Rahul Gupta as the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Clerk hereby forward a copy of this resolution to the Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States.

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