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119-hr-10487119th CongressWALLET

Recovery First Housing Act

Sponsored By: Representative Burchett, Tim [R-TN-2]

Introduced

Summary

The Recovery First Housing Act would require Title IV-funded homeless housing to offer substance use disorder treatment to each resident with a substance use disorder. The mandate would cover emergency shelter, transitional housing, and permanent housing, and it includes a narrow exception for unaccompanied minors.

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  • Housing project sponsors that receive federal funds would need to arrange treatment delivered by a licensed provider. Available care may include medically supervised withdrawal, residential treatment, intensive outpatient care, outpatient care, medication-assisted treatment, recovery housing with clinical support, and step-down treatment.
  • People experiencing homelessness with a substance use disorder would be offered an appropriate level of care while housed, including structured step-down services to move from intensive to community-based treatment.
  • Sponsors would determine who receives treatment and which modalities are used based on their assessments. Unaccompanied minors admitted by a sponsor are not subject to the treatment requirement.

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Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Mandatory addiction treatment in funded shelters

If enacted, the bill would require project sponsors that get Title IV funds to offer substance use disorder treatment in emergency, transitional, and permanent housing. Sponsors would have to offer treatment to each person they admit who the sponsor determines has a substance use disorder. Treatment must be delivered by a licensed provider and may include medically supervised withdrawal, residential treatment, intensive outpatient, outpatient, medication-assisted treatment, recovery housing with clinical support, or step-down treatment. The requirement would not apply to unaccompanied minors, and the bill does not set funding levels, timelines, or enforcement rules.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Burchett, Tim [R-TN-2]

TN • R

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

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