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114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4969 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MAY 12, 2016 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, 

Labor, and Pensions 

AN ACT 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to direct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide for 

informational materials to educate and prevent addiction 

in teenagers and adolescents who are injured playing 

youth sports and subsequently prescribed an opioid. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘John Thomas Decker 

3 Act of 2016’’. 

4 SEC. 2. INFORMATION MATERIALS AND RESOURCES TO 

5 PREVENT ADDICTION RELATED TO YOUTH 

6 SPORTS INJURIES. 

7 (a) TECHNICAL CLARIFICATION.—Effective as if in8 cluded in the enactment of the Children’s Health Act of 

9 2000 (Public Law 106–310), section 3405(a) of such Act 

10 (114 Stat. 1221) is amended by striking ‘‘Part E of title 

11 III’’ and inserting ‘‘Part E of title III of the Public Health 

12 Service Act’’. 

13 (b) AMENDMENT.—Title III of the Public Health 

14 Service Act is amended by inserting after part D of such 

15 title (42 U.S.C. 254b et seq.) the following new part E: 

16 ‘‘PART E—OPIOID USE DISORDER 

17 ‘‘SEC. 341. INFORMATION MATERIALS AND RESOURCES TO 

18 PREVENT ADDICTION RELATED TO YOUTH 

19 SPORTS INJURIES. 

20 ‘‘(a) REPORT.—The Secretary shall— 

21 ‘‘(1) not later than 24 months after the date of 

22 the enactment of this section, make publicly avail23 able a report determining the extent to which infor24 mational materials and resources described in sub25 section (b) are available to teenagers and adolescents 

26 who play youth sports, families of such teenagers 


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1 and adolescents, nurses, youth sports groups, and 

2 relevant health care provider groups; and 

3 ‘‘(2) for purposes of educating and preventing 

4 addiction in teenagers and adolescents who are in5 jured playing youth sports and are subsequently pre6 scribed an opioid, not later than 12 months after 

7 such report is made publicly available and taking 

8 into consideration the findings of such report, de9 velop and, in coordination with youth sports groups, 

10 disseminate informational materials and resources 

11 described in subsection (b) for teenagers and adoles12 cents who play youth sports, families of such teen13 agers and adolescents, nurses, youth sports groups, 

14 and relevant health care provider groups. 

15 ‘‘(b) MATERIALS AND RESOURCES DESCRIBED.—For 

16 purposes of this section, the informational materials and 

17 resources described in this subsection are informational 

18 materials and resources with respect to youth sports inju19 ries for which opioids are potentially prescribed and subse20 quently potentially lead to addiction, including materials 

21 and resources focused on the dangers of opioid use and 

22 misuse, treatment options for such injuries that do not 

23 involve the use of opioids, and how to seek treatment for 

24 addiction. 


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1 ‘‘(c) NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS.—No additional funds 

2 are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of car3 rying out this section. This section shall be carried out 

4 using amounts otherwise available for such purpose.’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives May 11, 2016. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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