‘‘(A) The Secretary of Health and Human 
Services may provide information to States, 
Territories, localities, Indian Tribes, Tribal or-
ganizations, and Urban Indian organizations on 
best practices for prescribing or co-prescribing 
a drug or device approved, cleared, or otherwise 
authorized under the Federal Food, Drug, and 
Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.) for emer-
gency treatment of known or suspected opioid 
overdose, including for patients receiving chron-
ic opioid therapy and patients being treated for 
opioid use disorders.’’; and 
(3) in subparagraphs (B) and (C), by striking 
‘‘approved or cleared’’ and inserting ‘‘approved, 
cleared, or otherwise authorized’’. 
SEC. 3. REAUTHORIZATION OF OPIOID OVERDOSE REVER-
SAL MEDICATION ACCESS, EDUCATION, AND 
CO-PRESCRIBING GRANT PROGRAMS. 
(a) GRANTS.—Section 545 of the Public Health Serv-
ice Act (42 U.S.C. 290ee) is amended— 
(1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘AC-
CESS, AND EDUCATION GRANT PROGRAMS’’ and 
inserting ‘‘ACCESS, EDUCATION, AND
CO-PRE-
SCRIBING GRANT PROGRAMS’’; 
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(2) in the heading of subsection (a), by striking 
‘‘GRANTS TO STATES’’ and inserting ‘‘GRANTS’’; 
(3) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘shall make 
grants to States’’ and inserting ‘‘shall make grants 
to States, Territories, localities, Indian Tribes, Trib-
al organizations, and Urban Indian organizations’’; 
(4) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ‘‘implement 
strategies for pharmacists to dispense a drug or de-
vice’’ and inserting ‘‘implement strategies that in-
crease access to drugs or devices’’; 
(5) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as 
paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively; and 
(6) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(3) encourage health care providers to co-pre-
scribe, as appropriate, drugs or devices approved, 
cleared, or otherwise authorized under the Federal 
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act for emergency treat-
ment of known or suspected opioid overdose;’’. 
(b) GRANT PERIOD.—Section 545(d)(2) of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290ee(d)(2)) is amended 
by striking ‘‘3 years’’ and inserting ‘‘5 years’’. 
(c) LIMITATION.—Paragraph (3) of section 545(d) of 
the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290ee(d)) is 
amended to read as follows: 
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‘‘(3) LIMITATIONS.—A State— 
‘‘(A) may use not more than 10 percent of 
a grant under this section for educating the 
public pursuant to subsection (a)(5); and 
‘‘(B) shall use at least 20 percent of a 
grant under this section to offset cost-sharing 
for distribution and dispensing of drugs or de-
vices approved, cleared, or otherwise authorized 
under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 
Act for emergency treatment of known or sus-
pected opioid overdose.’’. 
(d) WAIVER.—Section 545 of the Public Health Serv-
ice Act (42 U.S.C. 290ee) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsections (f) through (h) 
as subsections (g) through (i), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (e) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(f) WAIVER.—If the laws, regulations, or orders of 
an applicant for a grantee under this section conflict in 
any respect with the requirements of the grant, the Sec-
retary shall waive such requirements to the extent nec-
essary to allow the grantee to carry out the activities de-
scribed in subsection (a).’’. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
545(i)(1) of the Public Health Service Act, as redesig-
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nated, is amended by striking ‘‘fiscal years 2017 through 
2019’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal years 2023 through 2027’’. 
(f) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.—Section 545 of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290ee), as amended, 
is further amended by striking ‘‘approved or cleared’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘approved, cleared, or oth-
erwise authorized’’. 
Æ 
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