‘‘(6) REVIEW.—The Secretary shall review the 
necessity of the Committee at least once every 2 
years.’’. 
SEC. 4. PAIN CARE EDUCATION AND TRAINING. 
(a) PAIN CARE EDUCATION AND TRAINING.—Part D 
of title VII of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
294 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating sections 754 through 758 
as sections 755 through 759, respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after section 753 the following: 
‘‘SEC. 754. PROGRAM FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN 
PAIN CARE. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may make awards 
of grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts to health 
professions schools, hospices, and other public and private 
entities for the development and implementation of pro-
grams to provide education and training to health care 
professionals in pain care. 
‘‘(b) PRIORITIES.—In making awards under sub-
section (a), the Secretary shall give priority to awards for 
the implementation of programs under such subsection. 
‘‘(c) CERTAIN TOPICS.—An award may be made 
under subsection (a) only if the applicant for the award 
agrees that the program carried out with the award will 
include information and education on— 
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‘‘(1) recognized means for assessing, diag-
nosing, treating, and managing pain and related 
signs and symptoms, including the medically appro-
priate use of controlled substances; 
‘‘(2) applicable laws, regulations, rules, and 
policies on controlled substances, including the de-
gree to which misconceptions and concerns regarding 
such laws, regulations, rules, and policies, or the en-
forcement thereof, may create barriers to patient ac-
cess to appropriate and effective pain care; 
‘‘(3) interdisciplinary approaches to the delivery 
of pain care, including delivery through specialized 
centers providing comprehensive pain care treatment 
expertise; 
‘‘(4) cultural, linguistic, literacy, geographic, 
and other barriers to care in underserved popu-
lations; and 
‘‘(5) recent findings, developments, and im-
provements in the provision of pain care. 
‘‘(d) PROGRAM
SITES.—Education and training 
under subsection (a) may be provided at or through health 
professions schools, residency training programs, and 
other graduate programs in the health professions; entities 
that provide continuing education in medicine, pain man-
agement, dentistry, psychology, social work, nursing, and 
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pharmacy; hospices; and such other programs or sites as 
the Secretary determines to be appropriate. 
‘‘(e) EVALUATION
OF PROGRAMS.—The Secretary 
shall (directly or through grants or contracts) provide for 
the evaluation of programs implemented under subsection 
(a) in order to determine the effect of such programs on 
knowledge and practice of pain care. 
‘‘(f) PEER REVIEW GROUPS.—In carrying out section 
799(f) with respect to this section, the Secretary shall en-
sure that the membership of each peer review group in-
volved includes individuals with expertise and experience 
in pain care. 
‘‘(g) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section the 
term ‘pain care’ means the assessment, diagnosis, treat-
ment, or management of acute or chronic pain regardless 
of causation or body location.’’. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
758(b)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (as redesig-
nated by subsection (a)(1) of this section) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of subpara-
graph (B); 
(2) by striking the period at the end of sub-
paragraph (C) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the fol-
lowing: 
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‘‘(D) not less than $5,000,000 for awards 
of grants, cooperative agreements, and con-
tracts under sections 754.’’. 
(c) TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.—Title VII of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 292 et seq.) is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2) of section 757(b) (as re-
designated by 
subsection 
(a)(1)), 
by 
striking 
‘‘754(3)(A), and 755(b)’’ and inserting ‘‘755(3)(A), 
and 756(b)’’; and 
(2) in subparagraph (C) of section 758(b)(1) 
(as redesignated by subsection (a)(1)), by striking 
‘‘754, and 755’’ and inserting ‘‘755, and 756’’. 
SEC. 5. PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN ON PAIN MANAGE-
MENT. 
Part B of title II of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 238 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘SEC. 249. NATIONAL EDUCATION OUTREACH AND AWARE-
NESS CAMPAIGN ON PAIN MANAGEMENT. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than June 30, 
2010, the Secretary shall establish and implement a na-
tional pain care education outreach and awareness cam-
paign described in subsection (b). 
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‘‘(b) REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary shall design 
the public awareness campaign under this section to edu-
cate consumers, patients, their families, and other care-
givers with respect to— 
‘‘(1) the incidence and importance of pain as a 
national public health problem; 
‘‘(2) the adverse physical, psychological, emo-
tional, societal, and financial consequences that can 
result if pain is not appropriately assessed, diag-
nosed, treated, or managed; 
‘‘(3) the availability, benefits, and risks of all 
pain treatment and management options; 
‘‘(4) having pain promptly assessed, appro-
priately diagnosed, treated, and managed, and regu-
larly reassessed with treatment adjusted as needed; 
‘‘(5) the role of credentialed pain management 
specialists and subspecialists, and of comprehensive 
interdisciplinary centers of treatment expertise; 
‘‘(6) the availability in the public, nonprofit, 
and private sectors of pain management-related in-
formation, services, and resources for consumers, 
employers, third-party payors, patients, their fami-
lies, and caregivers, including information on— 
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