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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5587 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize certain recovery services 

grants to be used to establish regional technical assistance centers. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 23, 2018 

Mr. BEN RAY LUJA ́N of New Mexico (for himself and Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio) 

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

A BILL 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize certain 

recovery services grants to be used to establish regional 

technical assistance centers. 

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 ‘‘Peer Support Commu5 nities of Recovery Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. BUILDING COMMUNITIES OF RECOVERY. 

7 Section 547 of the Public Health Service Act (42 

8 U.S.C. 290ee–2) is amended— 

9 (1) in subsection (a)— 


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1 (A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘DEFINI2 TION’’ and inserting ‘‘DEFINITIONS’’; 

3 (B) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 

4 by striking ‘‘In this section, the term ‘recovery 

5 community organization’ means an independent 

6 nonprofit organization that—’’ and inserting 

7 ‘‘In this section:’’; 

8 (C) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and 

9 (2) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively, 

10 and moving such subparagraphs (as so redesig11 nated) 2 ems to the right; 

12 (D) by inserting before subparagraph (A) 

13 (as so redesignated) the following: 

14 ‘‘(1) RECOVERY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION.— 

15 The term ‘recovery community organization’ means 

16 an independent nonprofit organization that—’’; and 

17 (E) by adding at the end the following: 

18 ‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘eligible en19 tity’ means— 

20 ‘‘(A) a national nonprofit entity focused on 

21 substance use disorder with a network of local 

22 affiliates and partners that are geographically 

23 and organizationally diverse; or 

24 ‘‘(B) a nonprofit organization— 


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1 ‘‘(i) focused on substance use dis2 order; 

3 ‘‘(ii) established by individuals in per4 sonal and family recovery; and 

5 ‘‘(iii) serving prevention, treatment, 

6 recovery, payor, faith-based, and criminal 

7 justice stakeholders in the implementation 

8 of local addiction and recovery initiatives.’’; 

9 (2) in subsection (b)— 

10 (A) by striking ‘‘The Secretary shall award 

11 grants to recovery community organizations’’ 

12 and inserting ‘‘The Secretary— 

13 ‘‘(1) shall award grants to recovery community 

14 organizations’’; 

15 (B) by striking ‘‘services.’’ and inserting 

16 ‘‘services and, at the option of each such orga17 nization, carry out the activities described in 

18 subparagraphs (A) through (C) of subsection 

19 (c)(2); and’’; and 

20 (C) by adding at the end the following: 

21 ‘‘(2) may award grants to eligible entities for 

22 purposes of establishing regional technical assistance 

23 centers, in accordance with subsection (c)(2)(D).’’; 

24 (3) by striking subsection (c); 


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1 (4) by redesignating subsections (d) and (e) as 

2 subsections (c) and (d), respectively; 

3 (5) in subsection (c) (as so redesignated)— 

4 (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘shall be 

5 used’’ and inserting ‘‘to a recovery community 

6 organization shall be used’’; and 

7 (B) in paragraph (2)— 

8 (i) in the matter preceding subpara9 graph (A), by striking ‘‘may be used to— 

10 ’’ and inserting ‘‘may be used to carry out 

11 the activities described in subparagraphs 

12 (A) through (C) in the case of a grant 

13 awarded to a recovery community organi14 zation and to carry out subparagraph (D) 

15 in the case of a grant awarded to an eligi16 ble entity.’’; 

17 (ii) in subparagraph (A)— 

18 (I) in the matter preceding clause 

19 (i), by striking ‘‘build’’ and inserting 

20 ‘‘Build’’; and 

21 (II) in clause (vii), by striking 

22 the semicolon at the end and inserting 

23 a period; 

24 (iii) in subparagraph (B)— 


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1 (I) by striking ‘‘reduce’’ and in2 serting ‘‘Reduce’’; and 

3 (II) by striking ‘‘; and’’ and in4 serting a period; 

5 (iv) in subparagraph (C), by striking 

6 ‘‘conduct’’ and inserting ‘‘Conduct’’; and 

7 (v) by adding at the end the following: 

8 ‘‘(D) Provide for the establishment of re9 gional technical assistance centers to provide re10 gional technical assistance for the following: 

11 ‘‘(i) Implementation of regionally driv12 en, peer-delivered addiction recovery sup13 port services before, during, after, or in 

14 lieu of addiction treatment. 

15 ‘‘(ii) Establishment of recovery com16 munity organizations. 

17 ‘‘(iii) Establishment of recovery com18 munity centers. 

19 ‘‘(iv) Overdose reversal medication 

20 training and dissemination.’’; and 

21 (6) in subsection (d) (as so redesignated), by 

22 inserting before the period the following: ‘‘, and 

23 $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 

24 2023’’. 

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