SEEK HELP Act
Sponsored By: Representative Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]
Introduced
Summary
Establishes federal Good Samaritan protections for opioid overdoses and pairs those protections with funding, training, and oversight to encourage people to seek timely medical help.
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- People and bystanders: Would protect someone who in good faith gives an opioid overdose reversal drug from civil liability, and would protect a person who seeks medical assistance from prosecution, civil asset forfeiture, or supervised release revocation when possession is discovered only because they called for help. Exceptions apply for willful or grossly negligent conduct.
- Law enforcement and public outreach: Would add a Justice Assistance Grant training category for state and local law enforcement on these legal protections and direct the Department of Health and Human Services, with the Drug Enforcement Administration, to run a public awareness campaign.
- States and oversight: Would allow Public Health Service Act Block Grant funds to pay for awareness, training, and data sharing where possible. It would also require the Government Accountability Office to report to Congress within 2 years on implementation, effects on overdose reporting and naloxone use, and on barriers and best practices.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Protections for overdose help
If enacted, you would have civil immunity when you, in good faith, give an FDA‑approved opioid overdose‑reversal drug to someone who seems to be overdosing. Civil immunity would apply in States that do not already have their own immunity law. You would also be protected from federal possession charges, civil asset forfeiture, or supervised‑release revocation if you seek medical help in good faith and quickly, and officials learn about possession only because you asked for help. Seeking help would include calling 911, police, poison control, or a medical or treatment provider. These protections would not cover willful crimes, gross negligence, reckless misconduct, or conscious indifference. They also would not stop an arrest on an outstanding warrant or block evidence for other crimes.
More training and awareness on overdose help
If enacted, States could use certain public‑health block‑grant funds to run awareness campaigns about their Good Samaritan laws, train responders and the public, and, when possible, share calls‑for‑help data with HHS. Law enforcement could use Byrne/JAG grants to train on these legal protections. HHS, with help from DEA, would run a national campaign to explain the protections for giving overdose‑reversal drugs and seeking medical help. The Government Accountability Office would report to Congress within two years on how these laws and grants are working.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]
CO • D
Cosponsors
Miller (WV)
WV • R
Sponsored 7/22/2025
Rep. Dean, Madeleine [D-PA-4]
PA • D
Sponsored 7/22/2025
Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]
NE • R
Sponsored 7/22/2025
Rep. Levin, Mike [D-CA-49]
CA • D
Sponsored 7/22/2025
Tenney
NY • R
Sponsored 7/22/2025
Rep. Garcia, Robert [D-CA-42]
CA • D
Sponsored 10/28/2025
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