US Congress House Bill 4841 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: Introduced on March 23 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-04-05 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Military Personnel Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Co-Prescribing Saves Lives Act of 2016 This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and the Department of Defense (DOD) to: (1) establish training guidelines for federal health care facilities and federally qualified health centers; and (2) train certain health care providers at federal health care facilities on best practices for prescribing pain medications, principles of pain management, the misuse potential of controlled substances, identification of potential substance use disorders and referral to further evaluation and treatment, and disposal of controlled substances. HHS, the VA, and DOD must establish, for certain health care facilities, guidelines for the prescription of naloxone to individuals at an elevated risk of overdose. (Naloxone is a prescription drug used to rapidly reverse an overdose of opioids, which are drugs with effects similar to opium, such as heroin and certain pain medications.) HHS must award grants to state departments of health for the development and application of guidelines for the prescription of opioid overdose reversal drugs and to increase access to naloxone. Grants may be used to: establish a program for purchasing, prescribing, and distributing opioid overdose reversal drugs; expand innovative models of naloxone distribution; train and provide resources to health care providers and pharmacists on prescribing opioid overdose reversal drugs; offset individuals' cost-sharing for opioid overdose reversal drugs; conduct community outreach to raise awareness of the availability of opioid overdose reversal drugs; and establish protocols to connect patients who have experienced a drug overdose with treatment.

Co-Prescribing Saves Lives Act of 2016

Rep. Keith Rothfus [R-PA]

Rep. William Keating [D-MA]

Rep. Donald Norcross [D-NJ]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-04-05	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
2016-03-28	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
2016-03-25	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2016-03-23	House	Referred to House Natural Resources
2016-03-23	House	Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
2016-03-23	House	Referred to House Armed Services
2016-03-23	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2016-03-23	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, Veterans' Affairs, and Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2016-03-23	House	Introduced in House

SB2256 (Related) 2016-04-27 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 442.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4841/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr4841/BILLS-114hr4841ih.pdf