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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5992 

To establish a grant program relating to the prevention of student and 

student athlete opioid misuse. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 1, 2018 

Ms. ESTY of Connecticut (for herself, Mr. MACARTHUR, and Mr. LARSON of 

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

A BILL 

To establish a grant program relating to the prevention 

of student and student athlete opioid misuse. 

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 ‘‘Student and Student 

5 Athlete Opioid Misuse Prevention Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR OPIOID MISUSE PREVENTION. 

7 Part A of title V of the Public Health Service Act 

8 (42 U.S.C. 290aa et seq.) is amended by adding at the 

9 end the following: 


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1 ‘‘SEC. 506B. GRANTS FOR STUDENT AND STUDENT ATHLETE 

2 OPIOID MISUSE PREVENTION. 

3 ‘‘(a) AUTHORITY.—The Assistant Secretary, in con4 sultation with the Secretary of Education, may make 

5 grants to, and enter into contracts and cooperative agree6 ments with, public and nonprofit private entities, including 

7 States and drug-free community coalitions, to enable such 

8 entities— 

9 ‘‘(1) to carry out school-based programs con10 cerning the dangers of the misuse of and addiction 

11 to prescription opioids, related drugs, and other pre12 scribed drugs commonly used in pain management 

13 or injury recovery, including initiatives that give stu14 dents the responsibility to create their own anti-drug 

15 abuse education programs for their schools; 

16 ‘‘(2) to carry out community-based misuse and 

17 addiction prevention programs relating to prescrip18 tion opioids, related drugs, and other prescription 

19 drugs commonly used in pain management or injury 

20 recovery, including youth sports organizations; and 

21 ‘‘(3) to carry out school, collegiate, and commu22 nity-based engagement of youth, high school, or col23 legiate athletic and recreation programs and associa24 tions concerning the dangers of the misuse of and 

25 addiction to prescription opioids, related drugs, and 

26 other prescription drugs commonly used in pain 


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1 management or injury recovery, including initiatives 

2 that give student athletes the responsibility to create 

3 their own anti-drug abuse education programs for 

4 their schools. 

5 ‘‘(b) USE OF FUNDS.—Amounts made available 

6 under a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement under 

7 subsection (a) shall be used for planning, establishing, or 

8 administering prevention programs relating to prescrip9 tion opioid, related drugs, and other drugs commonly used 

10 in pain management or injury recovery. 

11 ‘‘(c) USE OF FUNDS.—Amounts provided to an entity 

12 under this section may be used— 

13 ‘‘(1) to carry out school-based programs that 

14 are focused on school districts with high or increas15 ing rates of misuse of and addiction to prescription 

16 and nonprescription opioids, and targeted at popu17 lations that are most at risk to start misusing such 

18 drugs; 

19 ‘‘(2) to carry out community-based prevention 

20 programs that are focused on populations within the 

21 community that are most at risk for misuse of and 

22 addiction to prescription and nonprescription 

23 opioids; 

24 ‘‘(3) to carry out school-based prevention pro25 grams that are focused on student athletes and the 


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1 risk of misuse of and addiction to prescription and 

2 nonprescription opioids as part of injury recovery 

3 and pain management; 

4 ‘‘(4) to carry out community-based programs 

5 that are focused on youth athletes and the risk of 

6 misuse of and addiction to prescription and non7 prescription opioids as part of injury recovery and 

8 pain management; 

9 ‘‘(5) to carry out collegiate-based programs that 

10 are focused on collegiate athletes, including club 

11 sports and recreation sports, and the risk for misuse 

12 of and addiction to prescription and nonprescription 

13 opioids as part of injury recovery and pain manage14 ment; 

15 ‘‘(6) to assist local government entities to con16 duct appropriate prevention activities relating to 

17 youth and the risk for misuse of and addiction to 

18 prescription and nonprescription opioids as part of 

19 injury recovery and pain management; and 

20 ‘‘(7) to train and educate State and local offi21 cials; youth athletics organizers and coaches; school 

22 administrators, teachers, athletic directors, coaches, 

23 and athletic trainers; collegiate administrators, ath24 letic directors, directors of campus recreation, coach25 es, athletic trainers, and campus-based medical proVerDate Sep 11 2014 23:19 Jun 01, 2018 Jkt 079200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H5992.IH H5992

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1 viders, on the signs of misuse of prescription and 

2 nonprescription opioids and the options for treat3 ment and prevention of such misuse. 

4 ‘‘(d) ALLOCATION AND REPORT.— 

5 ‘‘(1) PREVENTION PROGRAM ALLOCATION.— 

6 Not more than $500,000 of the amount appro7 priated in each fiscal year to carry out this section 

8 shall be made available to the Assistant Secretary, 

9 acting in consultation with other Federal agencies, 

10 to support and conduct periodic analyses and evalua11 tions of effective prevention programs for misuse of 

12 and addiction to opioids, related drugs, and other 

13 drugs commonly used for pain management and the 

14 development of appropriate strategies for dissemi15 nating information about and implementing such 

16 programs. 

17 ‘‘(2) REPORT.—The Assistant Secretary shall 

18 annually prepare and submit to the Committee on 

19 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, the Com20 mittee on the Judiciary, and the Committee on Ap21 propriations of the Senate, and the Committee on 

22 Energy and Commerce, the Committee on the Judi23 ciary, and the Committee on Appropriations of the 

24 House of Representatives, a report on the prevention 

25 programs and development of strategies described in 


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1 paragraph (1), containing, as appropriate, the re2 sults of the analyses and evaluations conducted 

3 under paragraph (1). 

4 ‘‘(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

5 is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section— 

6 ‘‘(1) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2018; and 

7 ‘‘(2) such sums as may be necessary for each 

8 succeeding fiscal year.’’. 

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