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House Calendar No. 113 

114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 725 

[Report No. 114–564] 

Providing for consideration of the bill (S. 524) to authorize the Attorney 

General to award grants to address the national epidemics of prescription 

opioid abuse and heroin use. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 12, 2016 

Mr. COLLINS of Georgia, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following 

resolution; which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 

printed 

RESOLUTION 

Providing for consideration of the bill (S. 524) to authorize 

the Attorney General to award grants to address the 

national epidemics of prescription opioid abuse and heroin use. 

1 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it 

2 shall be in order to consider in the House the bill (S. 524) 

3 to authorize the Attorney General to award grants to ad4 dress the national epidemics of prescription opioid abuse 

5 and heroin use. All points of order against consideration 


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1 of the bill are waived. An amendment in the nature of 

2 a substitute consisting of the respective texts of the bills 

3 specified in section 2(a) of this resolution shall be consid4 ered as adopted. The bill, as amended, shall be considered 

5 as read. All points of order against provisions in the bill, 

6 as amended, are waived. The previous question shall be 

7 considered as ordered on the bill, as amended, to final pas8 sage without intervening motion except: (1) one hour of 

9 debate equally divided among and controlled by the chair 

10 and ranking minority member of the Committee on En11 ergy and Commerce and the chair and ranking minority 

12 member of the Committee on the Judiciary; and (2) one 

13 motion to commit with or without instructions. 

14 SEC. 2. (a) The bills referred to in the first section 

15 of this resolution are as follows: H.R. 4641, H.R. 5046, 

16 H.R. 4063, H.R. 4985, H.R. 5048, H.R. 5052, H.R. 

17 4843, H.R. 4978, H.R. 3680, H.R. 3691, H.R. 1818, 

18 H.R. 4969, H.R. 4586, H.R. 4599, H.R. 4976, H.R. 

19 4982, H.R. 4981, and H.R. 1725, in each case as passed 

20 by the House. 

21 (b) In forming the amendment in the nature of a sub22 stitute referred to in the first section of this resolution, 

23 the Clerk— 


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1 (1) shall assign appropriate designations to pro2 visions within the amendment in the nature of a 

3 substitute; 

4 (2) shall conform cross-references and provi5 sions for short titles within the amendment in the 

6 nature of a substitute; and 

7 (3) is authorized to make technical corrections 

8 within the amendment in the nature of a substitute, 

9 to include corrections in spelling, punctuation, page 

10 and line numbering, section numbering, and inser11 tion of appropriate headings. 

12 SEC. 3. Upon passage of S. 524 the title of such bill 

13 is amended to read as follows: ‘‘To authorize the Attorney 

14 General and Secretary of Health and Human Services to 

15 award grants to address the national epidemics of pre16 scription opioid abuse and heroin use, and to provide for 

17 the establishment of an inter-agency task force to review, 

18 modify, and update best practices for pain management 

19 and prescribing pain medication, and for other purposes.’’. 

20 SEC. 4. If S. 524, as amended, is passed, then it shall 

21 be in order for the chair of the Committee on Energy and 

22 Commerce or his designee to move that the House insist 

23 on its amendments to S. 524 and request a conference 

24 with the Senate thereon. 


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House Calendar No. 113 

114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 725 

[Report No. 114–564] 

RESOLUTION 

Providing for consideration of the bill (S. 524) to 

opioid abuse and heroin use. to address the national epidemics of prescription authorize the Attorney General to award grants 

MAY 12, 2016 

Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 

printed 


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