IIB 

111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 2818 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

NOVEMBER 15, 2010 

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

Labor, and Pensions 

AN ACT 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for 

the establishment of a drug-free workplace information 

clearinghouse, to support residential methamphetamine 

treatment programs for pregnant and parenting women, 

to improve the prevention and treatment of methamphetamine addiction, and for other purposes. 


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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 ‘‘Methamphetamine 

5 Education, Treatment, and Hope Act of 2010’’. 

6 SEC. 2. ENHANCING HEALTH CARE PROVIDER AWARENESS 

7 OF METHAMPHETAMINE ADDICTION. 

8 Section 507(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 

9 U.S.C. 290bb(b)) is amended— 

10 (1) by redesignating paragraphs (13) and (14) 

11 as paragraphs (14) and (15), respectively; and 

12 (2) by inserting after paragraph (12) the fol13 lowing: 

14 ‘‘(13) collaborate with professionals in the ad15 diction field and primary health care providers to 

16 raise awareness about how to— 

17 ‘‘(A) recognize the signs of a substance 

18 abuse disorder; and 

19 ‘‘(B) apply evidence-based practices for 

20 screening and treating individuals with or at21 risk for developing an addiction, including ad22 diction to methamphetamine or other drugs;’’. 


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1 SEC. 3. RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT PROGRAMS FOR PREG2 NANT AND PARENTING WOMEN. 

3 Section 508 of the Public Health Service Act (42 

4 U.S.C. 290bb–1) is amended— 

5 (1) in subsection (a)— 

6 (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 

7 by striking ‘‘postpartum women treatment for 

8 substance abuse’’ and inserting ‘‘parenting 

9 women treatment for substance abuse (includ10 ing treatment for addiction to methamphet11 amine)’’; 

12 (B) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘reside 

13 in’’ and inserting ‘‘reside in or receive out14 patient treatment services from’’; and 

15 (C) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘the 

16 minor children of the women reside with the 

17 women in such facilities’’ and inserting ‘‘the 

18 minor children of the women who reside in such 

19 facilities reside with such women’’; 

20 (2) in subsection (d), by amending paragraph 

21 (2) to read as follows: 

22 ‘‘(2) Referrals for necessary hospital and dental 

23 services.’’; 

24 (3) by amending subsection (m) to read as fol25 lows: 


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1 ‘‘(m) ALLOCATION OF AWARDS.—In making awards 

2 under subsection (a), the Director shall give priority to 

3 any entity that agrees to use the award for a program 

4 serving an area that— 

5 ‘‘(1) is a rural area, an area designated under 

6 section 332 by the Administrator of the Health Re7 sources and Services Administration as a health pro8 fessional shortage area with a shortage of mental 

9 health professionals, or an area determined by the 

10 Director to have a shortage of family-based sub11 stance abuse treatment options; and 

12 ‘‘(2) is determined by the Director to have high 

13 rates of addiction to methamphetamine or other 

14 drugs.’’; 

15 (4) in subsection (p)— 

16 (A) by striking ‘‘October 1, 1994’’ and in17 serting ‘‘one year after the date of the enact18 ment of the Methamphetamine Education, 

19 Treatment, and Hope Act of 2010’’; 

20 (B) by inserting ‘‘In submitting reports 

21 under this subsection, the Director may use 

22 data collected under this section or other provi23 sions of law, insofar as such data is used in a 

24 manner consistent with all Federal privacy laws 

25 applicable to the use of data collected under 


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1 this section or other provision, respectively.’’ 

2 after ‘‘biennial report under section 501(k).’’; 

3 and 

4 (C) by striking ‘‘Each report under this 

5 subsection shall include’’ and all that follows 

6 and inserting ‘‘Each report under this sub7 section shall, with respect to the period for 

8 which the report is prepared, include the fol9 lowing: 

10 ‘‘(1) A summary of any evaluations conducted 

11 under subsection (o). 

12 ‘‘(2) Data on the number of pregnant and par13 enting women in need of, but not receiving, treat14 ment for substance abuse. Such data shall include, 

15 but not be limited to, the number of pregnant and 

16 parenting women in need of, but not receiving, treat17 ment for methamphetamine abuse, disaggregated by 

18 State and tribe. 

19 ‘‘(3) Data on recovery and relapse rates of 

20 women receiving treatment for substance abuse 

21 under programs carried out pursuant to this section, 

22 including data disaggregated with respect to treat23 ment for methamphetamine abuse.’’; 

24 (5) by redesignating subsections (q) and (r) as 

25 subsections (r) and (s), respectively; 


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1 (6) by inserting after subsection (p) the fol2 lowing: 

3 ‘‘(q) METHAMPHETAMINE ADDICTION.—In carrying 

4 out this section, the Director shall expand, intensify, and 

5 coordinate efforts to provide pregnant and parenting 

6 women treatment for addiction to methamphetamine or 

7 other drugs.’’; and 

8 (7) in subsection (s) (as so redesignated), by 

9 striking ‘‘such sums as may be necessary to fiscal 

10 years 2001 through 2003’’ and inserting 

11 ‘‘$16,000,000 for fiscal year 2012, $16,500,000 for 

12 fiscal year 2013, $17,000,000 for fiscal year 2014, 

13 $17,500,000 for fiscal year 2015, and $18,000,000 

14 for fiscal year 2016’’. 

15 SEC. 4. WORKPLACE INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSE. 

16 Section 515(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 

17 U.S.C. 290bb–21(b)) is amended— 

18 (1) in paragraph (10), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 

19 end; 

20 (2) by redesignating paragraph (11) as para21 graph (13); and 

22 (3) by inserting after paragraph (10) the fol23 lowing new paragraph: 

24 ‘‘(11) maintain a clearinghouse that provides 

25 information and educational materials to employers 


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1 and employees about comprehensive drug-free work2 place programs and substance abuse prevention and 

3 treatment resources;’’. 

4 SEC. 5. YOUTH INVOLVEMENT IN PREVENTION STRATE5 GIES. 

6 Section 515(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 

7 U.S.C. 290bb–21(b)), as amended by section 4, is further 

8 amended by inserting after paragraph (11) the following 

9 new paragraph: 

10 ‘‘(12) support the involvement of youth in the 

11 development and implementation of prevention strat12 egies focused on youth, with regard to methamphet13 amine and other drugs; and’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives September 30 

(legislative day September 29), 2010. 

Attest: LORRAINE C. MILLER, 

Clerk. 


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