I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3130 
To amend title V of the Public Health Service Act to provide for enhanced 
comprehensive methamphetamine treatment services. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 23, 2007 
Ms. HOOLEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend title V of the Public Health Service Act to provide 
for enhanced comprehensive methamphetamine treatment 
services. 
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 ‘‘Enhanced Meth-
amphetamine Treatment Grants Assistance Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR WRAP-AROUND METHAMPHETAMINE 
TREATMENT SERVICES. 
Subpart 1 of part B of title V of the Public Health 
Service Act is amended— 
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(1) by redesignating section 514, as added by 
section 3634 of Public Law 106–310 (114 Stat. 
1236), as section 514B; and 
(2) by inserting after section 514B, as redesig-
nated by paragraph (1), the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 514C. GRANTS FOR COMPREHENSIVE WRAP-AROUND 
METHAMPHETAMINE TREATMENT SERVICES. 
‘‘(a) 
AUTHORIZATION.—The 
Secretary, 
acting 
through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and 
Mental Health Services Administration, shall provide 
awards of grants to public, private, and nonprofit entities 
and Indian tribes and tribal organizations to establish pro-
grams to provide for and coordinate the provision of wrap- 
around services described in subsection (c) to meth-
amphetamine-affected individuals described in subsection 
(b), in accordance with this section. 
‘‘(b) METHAMPHETAMINE-AFFECTED
INDIVIDUAL 
DESCRIBED.—For purposes of subsection (a), a meth-
amphetamine-affected individual is an individual who— 
‘‘(1)(A) resided in a residential inpatient treat-
ment facility for the treatment of methamphetamine 
abuse or addiction; or 
‘‘(B) received treatment for methamphetamine 
abuse or addiction from an intensive outpatient 
treatment facility; and 
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‘‘(2) after successful completion of such treat-
ment reenters the community of such individual. 
‘‘(c) WRAP-AROUND SERVICES DESCRIBED.—In the 
case of a methamphetamine-affected individual, wrap- 
around services described in this subsection are as follows: 
‘‘(1) Medical services. 
‘‘(2) Dental services. 
‘‘(3) Mental health services. 
‘‘(4) Child care services. 
‘‘(5) Job training services. 
‘‘(6) Housing assistance. 
‘‘(7) Training in parenting. 
‘‘(8) Prevention services for family members, 
with respect to methamphetamine abuse or addic-
tion. 
‘‘(9) Transportation assistance services for pur-
poses of participation in the services listed in para-
graphs (1) through (8). 
‘‘(d) MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS FOR RECEIPT OF 
AWARD.—To be eligible to receive an award under sub-
section (a), an applicant shall provide assurances to the 
satisfaction of the Secretary that— 
‘‘(1) the applicant has the capacity to carry out 
a program described in such subsection; 
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‘‘(2) the applicant, or any entity through which 
the applicant will provide services described in sub-
section (c), meets all applicable State licensure or 
certification requirements regarding the provision of 
the services involved; and 
‘‘(3) the applicant has entered into agreements 
with entities in the community involved through 
which the applicant will provide such services. 
‘‘(e) PRIORITY
FOR GRANTS DISTRIBUTIONS.—In 
making grants under this section, the Secretary shall give 
priority to applications for programs that serve commu-
nities with high or increasing rate of methamphetamine 
abuse or addiction, as specified by the Secretary. 
‘‘(f) REPORTS.—For each year that an entity receives 
a grant under subsection (a) for a program, such entity 
shall submit to the Secretary a report on the results and 
effectiveness of the program. 
‘‘(g) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section: 
‘‘(1) RESIDENTIAL INPATIENT TREATMENT FA-
CILITY.—The term ‘residential inpatient treatment 
facility’ means a facility that provides treatment for 
substance abuse and in which health professionals 
and clinicians provide a planned regimen of 24-hour 
professionally-directed evaluation, care, and treat-
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ment for such substance abuse in an inpatient set-
ting, including 24-hour observation and monitoring. 
‘‘(2) INTENSIVE OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FA-
CILITY.—The term ‘intensive outpatient treatment 
facility’ means a facility that provides treatment for 
substance abuse in which health professional and cli-
nicians provide regularly scheduled sessions. with re-
spect to such treatment, within a structured pro-
gram and that provides a minimum of 9 hours of 
treatment during a week. 
‘‘(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, 
$40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2009 through 2013.’’. 
SEC. 3. FAMILY-BASED SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT 
PROGRAMS. 
(a) EXTENSION AND EXPANSION OF RESIDENTIAL 
TREATMENT
PROGRAM
FOR
PREGNANT
AND 
POSTPARTUM WOMEN TO INCLUDE CAREGIVER PAR-
ENTS.—Section 508 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 290bb–1) is amended— 
(1) in the heading, by striking ‘‘PREGNANT 
AND
POSTPARTUM
WOMEN’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘CAREGIVER PARENTS, INCLUDING PREGNANT 
WOMEN’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)— 
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(A) in the matter preceding paragraph 
(1)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘and Indian tribes 
and tribal organizations’’ after ‘‘private en-
tities’’; and 
(ii) 
by 
striking 
‘‘pregnant 
and 
postpartum women treatment for sub-
stance abuse’’ and inserting ‘‘caregiver 
parents, including pregnant women, treat-
ment for substance abuse (including treat-
ment for addiction to methamphetamine)’’; 
and 
(B) in each of paragraphs (1), (2), and 
(3), by striking ‘‘women’’ and inserting ‘‘care-
giver parents’’ each place it appears; 
(3) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ‘‘woman’’ 
and inserting ‘‘caregiver parent’’; 
(4) in subsection (c)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(I) strike ‘‘eligible woman’’ and insert 
‘‘eligible caregiver parent’’; 
(ii) strike ‘‘with the women’’ and in-
sert ‘‘with the parent’’; and 
(iii) strike ‘‘to the woman’’ and insert 
‘‘to the parent’’; 
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(B) in paragraph (2)(B), strike ‘‘woman’’ 
and insert ‘‘caregiver parent’’; 
(5) in subsection (d), strike ‘‘woman’’ and in-
sert ‘‘caregiver parent’’ each place it appears and 
strike ‘‘women’’ and insert ‘‘caregiver parents’’ each 
place it appears; 
(6) in subsection (h), strike ‘‘pregnant and 
postpartum women’’ and insert ‘‘caregiver parents’’; 
(7) in subsection (j), strike ‘‘woman’’ and insert 
‘‘caregiver parent’’ each place it appears; 
(8) in subsection (k)(2), strike ‘‘women’’ and 
insert ‘‘caregiver parents’’; 
(9) by amending subsection (m) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(m) USE
OF FUNDS; PRIORITY
FOR CERTAIN 
AREAS SERVED.— 
‘‘(1) USE OF FUNDS.—A funding agreement for 
an award under subsection (a) for an applicant is 
that funds awarded under such subsection to such 
applicant shall be used for programs according to 
the following order of priority: 
‘‘(A) For a program that provides services 
to caregiver parents who are pregnant and 
postpartum women. 
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‘‘(B) For a program that provides services 
to caregiver parents who are single parents and 
the sole caregivers with respect to their chil-
dren. 
‘‘(C) For a program that provides services 
to any caregiver parents. 
‘‘(2) PRIORITY FOR CERTAIN AREAS SERVED.— 
In making awards under subsection (a), the Director 
shall give priority to any entity that agrees to use 
the award for a program serving an area that— 
‘‘(A) is a rural area; 
‘‘(B) an area determined by the Director 
to have a shortage of family-based substance 
abuse treatment options; or 
‘‘(C) is determined by the Director to have 
high rates of addiction to methamphetamine.’’; 
(10) in subsection (p), by striking ‘‘October 1, 
1994’’ and inserting ‘‘October 1, 2008’’; 
(11) in subsection (q)— 
(A) by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), 
(4), and (5) as paragraphs (3), (4), (5), and 
(6), respectively; 
(B) by inserting after paragraph (1) the 
following new paragraph: 
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‘‘(2) The term ‘caregiver parent’ means, with 
respect to a child, a parent or legal guardian with 
whom the child resides, and includes a pregnant 
woman.’’; and 
(C) by amending paragraph (3), as redes-
ignated by subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, 
to read as follows: 
‘‘(3) The term ‘eligible caregiver parent’ means 
a caregiver parent who has been admitted to a pro-
gram operated pursuant to subsection (a).’’; and 
(12) in subsection (r), by striking ‘‘such sums 
as may be necessary to fiscal years 2001 through 
2003’’ and inserting ‘‘$70,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2009 through 2013’’. 
(b) PROGRAM
TO
REDUCE
SUBSTANCE
ABUSE 
AMONG NONVIOLENT OFFENDERS: FAMILY TREATMENT 
ALTERNATIVES TO INCARCERATION.—Title V of the Pub-
lic Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290aa et seq.) is amend-
ed by inserting after section 509 the following: 
‘‘SEC. 510. PROGRAM TO REDUCE SUBSTANCE ABUSE 
AMONG NONVIOLENT OFFENDERS: FAMILY 
TREATMENT ALTERNATIVES TO INCARCER-
ATION. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting through 
the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental 
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Health Services Administration, shall make awards of 
grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts to public and 
nonprofit private entities and Indian tribes and tribal or-
ganizations for the purpose of assisting local jails and de-
tention facilities in providing comprehensive, family-based 
substance abuse treatment services (including treatment 
for addiction to methamphetamine) to pregnant and par-
enting adults who are considered nonviolent offenders. 
‘‘(b) MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
FOR NONPROFIT 
PRIVATE ENTITIES.—An award may be made under sub-
section (a) to an applicant that is a nonprofit private enti-
ty only if the Secretary determines that— 
‘‘(1) the applicant has the capacity to provide 
the services described subsection (a); and 
‘‘(2) the applicant meets all applicable State li-
censor and certification requirements regarding the 
provision of substance abuse treatment services. 
‘‘(c) REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO FAMILY DRUG 
TREATMENT PROGRAM THAT IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO IN-
CARCERATION.—A grant under this section may be used 
for a family drug treatment program that is an alternative 
to incarceration only if the program complies with the fol-
lowing: 
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‘‘(1) The program is a comprehensive, long- 
term family treatment program focused on the treat-
ment of the parent and child. 
‘‘(2) The program and its providers meet all ap-
plicable State licensor and certification requirements 
regarding the provision of substance abuse treat-
ment services. 
‘‘(3) Each parent offender who participates in 
the program is sentenced to, or placed with, a long- 
term family treatment program (which shall include 
a residential component). 
‘‘(4) Each parent offender who participates in 
the program serves a sentence with respect to the 
underlying crime if that parent offender does not 
successfully complete treatment with the residential 
treatment provider. 
‘‘(5) The program has mandatory periodic drug 
testing. The Secretary shall, by prescribing guide-
lines or regulations, specify standards for the timing 
and manner of complying with such testing. The 
standards shall ensure that— 
‘‘(A) each individual participating in the 
program as an alternative to incarceration is 
tested for every controlled substance that the 
participant has been known to abuse, and for 
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any other controlled substance the Secretary 
may require; and 
‘‘(B) the testing is accurate and prac-
ticable; and 
‘‘(C) the drug testing regime is a factor in 
determinations of whether program participants 
successfully complete treatment. 
‘‘(d) ALLOCATION OF AWARDS.—In making awards 
under subsection (a), the Secretary shall give priority to 
any entity that agrees to use the award for a program 
serving an area that— 
‘‘(1) is a rural area, an area designated under 
section 332 by the Administrator of the Health Re-
sources and Services Administration as a health pro-
fessional shortage area with a shortage of mental 
health professionals, or an area determined by the 
Secretary to have a shortage of family-based sub-
stance abuse treatment options; and 
‘‘(2) is determined by the Secretary to have 
high rates of addiction to methamphetamine or other 
drugs. 
‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section the terms ‘family 
drug treatment’, ‘family treatment’, and ‘comprehensive, 
long-term family treatment’ describe programs that pro-
vide, or are able to provide referrals for, the following serv-
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ices: Substance abuse treatment, children’s early interven-
tion services, family counseling, legal services, medical 
care, mental health services, nursery and preschool, par-
enting skills training, pediatric care, prenatal care, sexual 
abuse therapy, relapse prevention, transportation, and job 
or vocational training or general equivalency diploma 
(GED) classes. 
‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For the 
purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized 
to be appropriated $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2009, 2010, and 2011, and $50,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2012 and 2013.’’. 
SEC. 
4. 
METHAMPHETAMINE 
TREATMENT 
PROGRAM 
GRANTS FOR UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS. 
Subpart 1 of part B of such title, as amended by sec-
tion 2, is further amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new section: 
‘‘SEC. 514D. METHAMPHETAMINE TREATMENT PROGRAM 
GRANTS FOR UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS. 
‘‘(a) 
AUTHORIZATION.—The 
Secretary, 
acting 
through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and 
Mental Health Services Administration, shall provide 
awards of grants to public, private, and nonprofit entities 
and Indian tribes and tribal organizations for the purpose 
of providing services in connection with the treatment of 
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methamphetamine use or addiction to underserved popu-
lations. 
‘‘(b) UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS DESCRIBED.— 
For purposes of subsection (a), an underserved popu-
lation, with respect to services described in such sub-
section, is a population of individuals who are— 
‘‘(1) not eligible for such services under title 
XVIII of the Social Security Act and are not eligible 
for medical assistance for such services under title 
XIX of such Act; 
‘‘(2) not receiving such services through a drug 
court; and 
‘‘(3) not eligible for such services under a pro-
gram for pregnant or parenting women. 
‘‘(c) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive an award 
under subsection (a), an applicant shall provide assur-
ances to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the popu-
lation that will be furnished services funded by such award 
will be an underserved population. 
‘‘(d) PRIORITY
FOR GRANT DISTRIBUTIONS.—In 
making grants under this section, the Secretary shall give 
priority to applications for programs designed to serve in-
dividuals who proactively seek treatment for methamphet-
amine use or addiction and who are not required to do 
so by court order or other form of law enforcement. 
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‘‘(e) REPORTS.—For each year that an entity receives 
a grant under subsection (a) for a program, such entity 
shall submit to the Secretary a report on the results and 
effectiveness of the program. 
‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION FOR APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, 
$60,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2009 through 
2013.’’. 
SEC. 5. SAMHSA STUDY ON METHAMPHETAMINE TREAT-
MENT METHODS. 
(a) STUDY.—The Secretary of Health and Human 
Services, through the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol 
and Drug Information, shall conduct a study to identify 
methamphetamine use and addiction treatment meth-
odologies and to evaluate the efficacy of such methodolo-
gies. 
(b) REPORT.—By not later than one year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services shall submit to Congress a report 
on the results of the study under subsection (a). 
Æ 
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