HERO Act
Sponsored By: Representative Ruiz
Introduced
Summary
Equips schools with opioid overdose reversal drugs and funded training. This bill would create a federal grant program to help elementary and secondary schools buy approved opioid overdose reversal drugs and deliver CPR, prevention, and overdose-response education.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
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School naloxone grants and training
This bill would create a competitive HHS grant program to give 1-year grants to eligible schools and school districts. Grants would pay to buy opioid overdose reversal drugs approved under federal law and to develop training on CPR, prevention, and emergency overdose response. The program would start no later than 90 days after enactment and give priority to cities or counties with high opioid-overdose rates. Grant winners would have a one-year grant and would need to report to HHS within one year after the grant ends about drug use, emergency plans, and education provided. Also, beginning within 90 days, any school receiving Federal funds would have to report any distribution of an overdose reversal drug to NEMSIS and to ODMAP. HHS, with the Education Department, would send a summary report to Congress within two years and annually after.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Ruiz
CA • D
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
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