Tyler’s Law
Sponsored By: Senator Banks, Jim [R-IN]
Passed Senate
Summary
A federal study and guidance on fentanyl testing in hospital emergency departments. This bill would direct the Department of Health and Human Services to study how often emergency departments test overdose patients for fentanyl and related substances, the costs, patient benefits and risks, staff training needs, privacy effects, barriers, and to issue follow-up guidance.
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- Patients and families: The study focuses on people treated for overdose and examines how testing may affect future overdose risk and health outcomes.
- Hospital emergency departments: Hospitals and independent freestanding emergency departments would be assessed on testing frequency, scenarios where tests are not done, costs, and implementation barriers.
- Health care professionals: Guidance would address which substances routine drug tests screen for and identify training needs for ED staff.
- Federal coordination and timeline: HHS would coordinate with other agencies and stakeholders, complete the study within 3 years, and publish guidance within 9 months after the study finishes.
*Does not change federal revenues, taxes, or entitlement programs.*
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Study and guidance on ER fentanyl testing
If enacted, HHS would study fentanyl testing in hospital emergency rooms. The study would review how often ERs test during overdoses, when they do not test, costs, benefits and risks, staff training, privacy, and barriers. HHS would have to finish the study within 3 years. Within 9 months after the study ends, HHS would issue guidance on whether ERs should make fentanyl tests routine, how to tell clinicians what drug panels cover, how testing affects future overdose risk and outcomes, and what federal help is available. “Hospital emergency department” would include hospital ERs and independent freestanding ERs.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Banks, Jim [R-IN]
IN • R
Cosponsors
Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]
CA • D
Sponsored 3/10/2025
Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
IA • R
Sponsored 3/10/2025
Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
VA • D
Sponsored 3/10/2025
Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
IN • R
Sponsored 3/10/2025
Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
FL • R
Sponsored 4/8/2025
Markwayne Mullin
OK • R
Sponsored 6/11/2025
Sen. Kim, Andy [D-NJ]
NJ • D
Sponsored 9/29/2025
Amy Klobuchar
MN • D
Sponsored 12/11/2025
Raphael Warnock
GA • D
Sponsored 12/17/2025
Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]
NH • D
Sponsored 1/14/2026
Sen. Moody, Ashley [R-FL]
FL • R
Sponsored 1/15/2026
Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL]
AL • R
Sponsored 1/15/2026
Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
WA • D
Sponsored 2/11/2026
Roll Call Votes
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