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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2985 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
provide for the eligibility of rural community response pilot programs 
for funding under the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Grant Program, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 4, 2021 
Mr. LAMB (for himself, Mr. FEENSTRA, Ms. SPANBERGER, and Mrs. MILLER- 
MEEKS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 to provide for the eligibility of rural commu-
nity response pilot programs for funding under the Com-
prehensive Opioid Abuse Grant Program, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Rural Area Opioid Pre-
vention Pilot Program Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY OF RURAL COMMUNITY RESPONSE 
PILOT PROGRAMS FOR FUNDING UNDER THE 
COMPREHENSIVE OPIOID ABUSE GRANT PRO-
GRAM. 
Section 3021 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10701) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in subsection (a)(1)— 
(A) in subparagraph (F), by striking 
‘‘and’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (G), by striking the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(H) a pilot program for rural areas to im-
plement community response programs that 
focus on presenting alternatives to incarceration 
and reducing opioid overdose deaths, as de-
scribed in subsection (f).’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(f) RURAL PILOT PROGRAM.—The pilot program 
described under this subsection shall make grants to rural 
areas to implement community response programs to re-
duce opioid overdose deaths. Grants issued under this sub-
section shall be jointly operated by units of local govern-
ment, in collaboration with public safety and public health 
agencies or public safety, public health and behavioral 
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health collaborations. A community response program 
under this subsection shall identify gaps in community 
prevention, treatment, and recovery services for individ-
uals who encounter the criminal justice system and shall 
establish treatment protocols to address identified short-
comings. The Attorney General, through the Office of Jus-
tice Programs, shall increase the amount provided as a 
grant under this section for a pilot program by no more 
than five percent for each of the two years following cer-
tification by the Attorney General of the submission of 
data by the rural area on the prescribing of schedules II, 
III, and IV controlled substances to a prescription drug 
monitoring program, or any other centralized database ad-
ministered by an authorized State agency, which includes 
tracking the dispensation of such substances, and pro-
viding for interoperability and data sharing with each 
other such program (including an electronic health records 
system) in each other State, and with any interstate entity 
that shares information between such programs.’’. 
SEC. 3. PROVISION REGARDING CERTAIN FUNDING LEVEL 
FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES. 
Section 3024 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10704) is amend-
ed— 
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(1) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; 
(2) in paragraph (2)(C) by striking the period 
at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) provides that no less than 10 percent of 
grants issued pursuant to this part shall be awarded 
to rural areas.’’. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITION. 
Section 3025 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10705) is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(9) The term ‘rural area’ have the meanings 
given such terms in section 343(a)(13)(A) of the 
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 
U.S.C. 1991(a)(13)(A)).’’. 
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