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Yes: 408 • No: 11
117-s-2796117th CongressWALLET
Rural Opioid Abuse Prevention Act
Sponsored By: Senator Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Became Law
Summary
Creates a rural-focused pilot program to reduce opioid overdose deaths. The law adds a new rural pilot to the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Grant Program to fund local community response efforts and encourage treatment-focused alternatives to incarceration.
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- Rural residents and families: Grants fund community response programs that must identify gaps in prevention, treatment, and recovery for people who encounter the criminal justice system and establish treatment protocols to address those gaps.
- Local governments and partners: Grants are awarded to units of local government that work jointly with public safety, public health, and behavioral health collaborators and may include presenting alternatives to incarceration as part of treatment and recovery pathways.
- State prescription drug monitoring programs and health systems: The Attorney General may increase a grant by up to 5% for each of two years after a rural area certifies it submits prescribing data on Schedule II, III, and IV controlled substances to a PDMP or centralized state database. That submission must support interoperability with other States and with electronic health records, hospitals, pharmacies, and health information exchanges, and the law does not require a single interstate data platform and preserves PDMP discretion on connections.
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Rural communities get opioid response grants
The law funds grants for rural communities to cut opioid overdose deaths. Local governments must run programs with public safety, public health, and behavioral health partners. Funded programs must find gaps in prevention, treatment, and recovery for people who touch the justice system, and set treatment protocols. Programs can offer alternatives to jail. The Attorney General can raise a grant by up to 5% for each of two years after certifying the area sent required data on Schedules II–IV prescriptions and dispensations to the state prescription drug monitoring system, with cross-state data sharing. States are not forced to use any one data-sharing platform, and state programs choose which systems to connect with, including electronic health records, hospitals, pharmacies, and health information exchanges.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
GA • D
Cosponsors
Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
IA • R
Sponsored 9/22/2021
Roll Call Votes
house vote • 12/6/2022
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
Yes: 408 • No: 11