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114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4969 

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. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 15, 2016 

Mr. MEEHAN (for himself, Mr. KIND, Mr. ROONEY of Florida, and Mr. 

VEASEY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 

A BILL 

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, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

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

5 Act of 2016’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. INFORMATION MATERIALS AND RESOURCES TO 

2 PREVENT ADDICTION RELATED TO YOUTH 

3 SPORTS INJURIES. 

4 Part J of title III of the Public Health Service Act 

5 (42 U.S.C. 280b–1f et seq.) is amended by adding after 

6 section 393D (42 U.S.C. 280b–1f et seq.) the following 

7 new section: 

8 ‘‘SEC. 393E. INFORMATION MATERIALS AND RESOURCES TO 

9 PREVENT ADDICTION RELATED TO YOUTH 

10 SPORTS INJURIES. 

11 ‘‘(a) REPORT.—The Secretary, acting through the 

12 National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the 

13 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall— 

14 ‘‘(1) not later than 18 months after the date of 

15 the enactment of this section, make publicly avail16 able a report determining the extent to which infor17 mational materials and resources described in sub18 section (b) are available to teenagers and adolescents 

19 who play youth sports, families of such teenagers 

20 and adolescents, nurses, youth sports groups, and 

21 relevant health care provider groups; and 

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

23 addiction in teenagers and adolescents who are in24 jured playing youth sports and are subsequently pre25 scribed an opioid, not later than 12 months after 

26 such report is made publicly available and taking 


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1 into consideration the findings of such report, de2 velop and, in coordination with youth sports groups, 

3 disseminate informational materials and resources 

4 described in subsection (b) for teenagers and adoles5 cents who play youth sports, families of such teen6 agers and adolescents, nurses, youth sports groups, 

7 and relevant health care provider groups. 

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

9 purposes of this section, the informational materials and 

10 resources described in this subsection are informational 

11 materials and resources with respect to youth sports inju12 ries for which opioids are potentially prescribed and subse13 quently potentially lead to addiction, including materials 

14 and resources focused on the dangers of opioid use and 

15 misuse, treatment options for such injuries that do not 

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

17 addiction. 

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

19 are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of car20 rying out this section. This section shall be carried out 

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

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