Comprehensive Opioid Recovery Centers Reauthorization Act of 2023

Subjects: Health

Summary:  <p><b>Comprehensive Opioid Recovery Centers Reauthorization Act of 2023</b></p> <p>This bill reauthorizes through FY2028 and modifies competitive grants for comprehensive opioid recovery centers. These centers provide a full continuum of treatment and recovery services to individuals with substance use disorders.</p> <p>In particular, the bill permits applicants for the grants to demonstrate their capacity to provide the required treatment and recovery services through a letter of intent from a partner agency. A <i>partner agency</i> is a nongovernmental organization or other public or private entity (1) that primarily delivers mental health or substance use disorder treatment services, and (2) that the applicant coordinates with to provide the services required by the grant.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1502 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1502

   To amend title V of the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize 
     comprehensive opioid recovery centers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 9, 2023

   Mr. Guthrie (for himself, Mr. Peters, Mr. Bucshon, and Mr. Tonko) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title V of the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize 
     comprehensive opioid recovery centers, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Comprehensive Opioid Recovery 
Centers Reauthorization Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. COMPREHENSIVE OPIOID RECOVERY CENTERS.

    (a) Reauthorization.--Section 552(j) of the Public Health Service 
Act (42 U.S.C. 290ee-7(j)) is amended by striking ``2019 through 2023'' 
and inserting ``2024 through 2028''.
    (b) Documentation for Evidence of Capacity To Carry Out Required 
Activities.--Section 552(d) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
290ee-7(d)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Documentation.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Evidence required to be provided 
                under paragraph (1) may be provided through a letter of 
                intent from partner agencies or other relevant 
                documentation (as defined by the Secretary).
                    ``(B) Partner agency defined.--In this paragraph, 
                the term `partner agency' means a non-governmental 
                organization or other public or private entity--
                            ``(i) the primary purpose of which is the 
                        delivery of mental health or substance use 
                        disorder treatment services; and
                            ``(ii) with which the applicant coordinates 
                        to provide the full continuum of treatment 
                        services (as specified in subsection (g)(1)(B)) 
                        that the applicant is unable to offer on 
                        site.''.
    (c) Center Activities Carried Out Through Third Parties.--Section 
552(g) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290ee-7(g)) is 
amended in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by striking ``Each Center 
shall'' and all that follows through ``subsection (f):'' and inserting 
the following: ``Each Center shall, at a minimum, carry out the 
activities specified in this subsection directly, through referral, or 
through contractual arrangements. If a Center elects to carry out such 
activities through contractual arrangements, the Secretary may issue 
guidance on best practices to ensure that the Center is capable of 
carrying out such activities, including carrying out such activities 
through technology-enabled collaborative learning and capacity building 
models described in subsection (f) and coordinating the full continuum 
of treatment services specified in subparagraph (B). Such activities 
include the following:''.
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