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[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2796 Engrossed in Senate (ES)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2796

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                                 AN ACT

 
  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
provide for the eligibility of rural community response pilot programs 
for funding under the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Grant Program, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Rural Opioid Abuse Prevention Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY OF RURAL COMMUNITY RESPONSE PILOT PROGRAMS FOR 
              FUNDING UNDER THE COMPREHENSIVE OPIOID ABUSE GRANT 
              PROGRAM.

    Section 3021 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10701) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (F), by striking ``and'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (G), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(H) a pilot program for rural areas to implement 
                community response programs that focus on reducing 
                opioid overdose deaths, which may include presenting 
                alternatives to incarceration, as described in 
                subsection (f).''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Rural Pilot Program.--
            ``(1) In general.--The pilot program described under this 
        subsection shall make grants to rural areas to implement 
        community response programs to reduce opioid overdose deaths. 
        Grants issued under this subsection shall be jointly operated 
        by units of local government, in collaboration with public 
        safety and public health agencies or public safety, public 
        health and behavioral health collaborations. A community 
        response program under this subsection shall identify gaps in 
        community prevention, treatment, and recovery services for 
        individuals who encounter the criminal justice system and shall 
        establish treatment protocols to address identified 
        shortcomings. The Attorney General, through the Office of 
        Justice Programs, shall increase the amount provided as a grant 
        under this section for a pilot program by no more than five 
        percent for each of the two years following certification by 
        the Attorney General of the submission of data by the rural 
        area on the prescribing of schedules II, III, and IV controlled 
        substances to a prescription drug monitoring program, or any 
        other centralized database administered by an authorized State 
        agency, which includes tracking the dispensation of such 
        substances, and providing for interoperability and data sharing 
        with each other such program (including an electronic health 
        records system) in each other State, and with any interstate 
        entity that shares information between such programs.
            ``(2) Rules of construction.--Nothing in this subsection 
        shall be construed to--
                    ``(A) direct or encourage a State to use a specific 
                interstate data sharing program; or
                    ``(B) limit or prohibit the discretion of a 
                prescription drug monitoring program for 
                interoperability connections to other programs 
                (including electronic health records systems, hospital 
                systems, pharmacy dispensing systems, or health 
                information exchanges).''.

            Passed the Senate December 8, 2021.

            Attest:

                                                             Secretary.
117th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                S. 2796

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
provide for the eligibility of rural community response pilot programs 
for funding under the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Grant Program, and for 
                            other purposes.
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