Overdose RADAR Act
Sponsored By: Senator Rick Scott
Introduced
Summary
This bill would expand federal data collection, coordination, and grants to fight the fentanyl crisis, centering data-driven overdose prevention. It would also strengthen school-based emergency response and push for uniform national overdose reporting.
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- Would authorize grants for elementary and secondary schools to stock and allow trained personnel to administer emergency opioid overdose drugs or devices. States must have attorney general certification that civil liability protections cover trained staff.
- Would create a new grant authority and fund improved surveillance, including enhanced postmortem toxicology, electronic death reporting, and cross-system data linkage. It also establishes a 3-year CDC wastewater pilot to let municipal treatment plants test communities for fentanyl, xylazine, and other illicit substances.
- Would reconstitute the Office of National Drug Control Policy with a Cabinet-level Director and require interagency coordination and national data standards with the Department of Justice and health agencies. It would add fentanyl test strips to the Controlled Substances Act framework and tighten rules around grant reprogramming and review to limit duplication.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 5 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Fentanyl test strips explicitly allowed
If enacted, the bill would add 'fentanyl test strips' to a federal list of allowed items. This would reduce legal uncertainty for groups and people who distribute or use test strips for harm reduction.
Overdose emergency drugs in schools
If enacted, the Secretary could give grants to eligible entities to put emergency overdose drugs and devices in public and private K–12 schools. Grants would support training and let trained staff administer emergency drugs, keep an accessible supply, and plan to have trained staff during all operating hours. States must have an attorney general certify that civil liability laws protect trained personnel.
Federal drug data coordination rules
If enacted, ONDCP would have to coordinate with DOJ, HHS, and others to set national drug-data submission standards and avoid duplicating grants. ONDCP would be asked to recommend recording some overdose deaths as homicides when evidence shows they were not self-induced. The bill would also change some agency reprogramming defaults to be treated as denied and affect rule submission rules.
More state grants for overdose data
If enacted, the bill would let the Secretary award grants to States, territories, and localities to improve overdose data. Grants could pay for better postmortem toxicology, cross-system data linkage, and electronic death reporting. The bill would also require State Opioid Response grantees to assess challenges and expand technical help on overdose best practices.
Three-year wastewater drug pilot
If enacted, the CDC Director would run a three-year competitive pilot with the Attorney General. Grants would go to municipal wastewater plants to test for drugs like fentanyl and xylazine in community wastewater. The pilot would start on enactment and end three years later.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Rick Scott
FL • R
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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