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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5587 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 13, 2018 

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

Labor, and Pensions 

AN ACT 

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, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Peer Support Commu3 nities of Recovery Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. BUILDING COMMUNITIES OF RECOVERY. 

5 Section 547 of the Public Health Service Act (42 

6 U.S.C. 290ee–2) is amended— 

7 (1) in subsection (a)— 

8 (A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘DEFINI9 TION’’ and inserting ‘‘DEFINITIONS’’; 

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

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

12 community organization’ means an independent 

13 nonprofit organization that—’’ and inserting 

14 ‘‘In this section:’’; 

15 (C) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and 

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

17 and moving such subparagraphs (as so redesig18 nated) 2 ems to the right; 

19 (D) by inserting before subparagraph (A) 

20 (as so redesignated) the following: 

21 ‘‘(1) RECOVERY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION.— 

22 The term ‘recovery community organization’ means 

23 an independent nonprofit organization that—’’; and 

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

25 ‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘eligible en26 tity’ means— 


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

2 substance use disorder with a network of local 

3 affiliates and partners that are geographically 

4 and organizationally diverse; or 

5 ‘‘(B) a nonprofit organization— 

6 ‘‘(i) focused on substance use dis7 order; 

8 ‘‘(ii) established by individuals in per9 sonal or family recovery; and 

10 ‘‘(iii) serving prevention, treatment, 

11 recovery, payor, faith-based, and criminal 

12 justice stakeholders in the implementation 

13 of local addiction and recovery initiatives.’’; 

14 (2) in subsection (b)— 

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

16 grants to recovery community organizations’’ 

17 and inserting ‘‘The Secretary— 

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

19 organizations’’; 

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

21 ‘‘services and allow such organizations to use 

22 such grant funds to carry out the activities de23 scribed in subparagraphs (A) through (C) of 

24 subsection (c)(2); and’’; and 

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


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

2 purposes of establishing regional technical assistance 

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

4 (3) by striking subsection (c); 

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

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

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

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

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

10 organization shall be used’’; 

11 (B) in paragraph (2)— 

12 (i) in subparagraph (A), in the matter 

13 preceding clause (i), by inserting before 

14 ‘‘build’’ the following: ‘‘in the case of a 

15 grant awarded to a recovery community or16 ganization,’’; 

17 (ii) in subparagraph (B)— 

18 (I) by inserting before ‘‘reduce’’ 

19 the following: ‘‘in the case of a grant 

20 awarded to a recovery community or21 ganization,’’; and 

22 (II) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 

23 (iii) in subparagraph (C)— 

24 (I) by inserting before ‘‘conduct’’ 

25 the following: ‘‘in the case of a grant 


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1 awarded to a recovery community or2 ganization,’’; and 

3 (II) by striking the period at the 

4 end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

5 (iv) by adding at the end the fol6 lowing: 

7 ‘‘(D) in the case of a grant awarded to an 

8 eligible entity, provide for the establishment of 

9 regional technical assistance centers to provide 

10 regional 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 conjunction with addiction treatment. 

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

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

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

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


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1 $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 

2 2023’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives June 12, 2018. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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