I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2063 
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to require certain training as a 
condition of registration to prescribe or dispense opioids for the treatment 
of pain or pain management, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 6, 2017 
Mr. SCHNEIDER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to require certain 
training as a condition of registration to prescribe or 
dispense opioids for the treatment of pain or pain man-
agement, 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 ‘‘Opioid Preventing 
Abuse through Continuing Education Act of 2017’’ or the 
‘‘Opioid PACE Act of 2017’’. 
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SEC. 2. PRACTITIONER EDUCATION. 
(a) TRAINING REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 303(f) of the Con-
trolled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 823(f)) is amend-
ed— 
(A) 
by 
redesignating 
paragraphs 
(1) 
through (5) as subparagraphs (A) through (E), 
respectively; 
(B) by striking ‘‘(f) The Attorney General’’ 
and inserting ‘‘(f)(1) Subject to paragraph (2), 
the Attorney General’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2)(A) To be registered under paragraph (1) to pre-
scribe or otherwise dispense opioids for the treatment of 
pain, or pain management, a practitioner (other than a 
hospital, a pharmacy, a pharmacist, or a veterinarian) 
shall comply with the 12-hour training requirement of this 
paragraph at least once during each 3-year period. 
‘‘(B) The training requirement of this paragraph is 
that the practitioner has completed not less than 12 hours 
of training (through classroom situations, seminars at pro-
fessional society meetings, electronic communications, or 
otherwise) with respect to— 
‘‘(i) pain management treatment guidelines and 
best practices, 
‘‘(ii) early detection of opioid addiction, and 
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‘‘(iii) the treatment and management of opioid- 
dependent patients, 
that is provided by the American Society of Addiction 
Medicine, the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, 
the American Medical Association, the American Osteo-
pathic Association, the American Psychiatric Association, 
the American Academy of Pain Management, the Amer-
ican Pain Society, the American Academy of Pain Medi-
cine, the American Board of Pain Medicine, the American 
Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, or any other or-
ganization that the Secretary determines is appropriate 
for purposes of this paragraph.’’. 
(2) FUNDING.—The Drug Enforcement Admin-
istration shall fund the enforcement of the require-
ments specified in section 303(f)(2) of the Con-
trolled Substances Act (as added by paragraph (1)) 
through the use of a portion of the licensing fees 
paid by controlled substance prescribers under the 
Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.). 
(b) ESTABLISHMENT OF TRAINING MODULES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall establish or support the estab-
lishment of one or more training modules to be used 
to meet the training requirement under section 
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303(f)(2) of the Controlled Substances Act (as 
added by subsection (a)(1)). 
(2) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—To be eligible to re-
ceive support under paragraph (1), an entity shall 
be— 
(A) one of the organizations listed in sub-
paragraph (B) of section 303(f)(2) of the Con-
trolled Substances Act (as added by subsection 
(a)(1)); or 
(B) any other organization that the Sec-
retary determines is appropriate to provide 
training under such section 303(f)(2). 
(3) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—To 
carry out this subsection, there is authorized to be 
appropriated $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2018 through 2022. 
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