I 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5587 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize certain recovery services 
grants to be used to establish regional technical assistance centers. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 23, 2018 
Mr. BEN RAY LUJA´N of New Mexico (for himself and Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on En-
ergy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize certain 
recovery services grants to be used to establish regional 
technical assistance centers. 
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 ‘‘Peer Support Commu-
nities of Recovery Act’’. 
SEC. 2. BUILDING COMMUNITIES OF RECOVERY. 
Section 547 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 290ee–2) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
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(A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘DEFINI-
TION’’ and inserting ‘‘DEFINITIONS’’; 
(B) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
by striking ‘‘In this section, the term ‘recovery 
community organization’ means an independent 
nonprofit organization that—’’ and inserting 
‘‘In this section:’’; 
(C) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and 
(2) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively, 
and moving such subparagraphs (as so redesig-
nated) 2 ems to the right; 
(D) by inserting before subparagraph (A) 
(as so redesignated) the following: 
‘‘(1) RECOVERY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION.— 
The term ‘recovery community organization’ means 
an independent nonprofit organization that—’’; and 
(E) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘eligible en-
tity’ means— 
‘‘(A) a national nonprofit entity focused on 
substance use disorder with a network of local 
affiliates and partners that are geographically 
and organizationally diverse; or 
‘‘(B) a nonprofit organization— 
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‘‘(i) focused on substance use dis-
order; 
‘‘(ii) established by individuals in per-
sonal and family recovery; and 
‘‘(iii) serving prevention, treatment, 
recovery, payor, faith-based, and criminal 
justice stakeholders in the implementation 
of local addiction and recovery initiatives.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘The Secretary shall award 
grants to recovery community organizations’’ 
and inserting ‘‘The Secretary— 
‘‘(1) shall award grants to recovery community 
organizations’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘services.’’ and inserting 
‘‘services and, at the option of each such orga-
nization, carry out the activities described in 
subparagraphs (A) through (C) of subsection 
(c)(2); and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) may award grants to eligible entities for 
purposes of establishing regional technical assistance 
centers, in accordance with subsection (c)(2)(D).’’; 
(3) by striking subsection (c); 
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(4) by redesignating subsections (d) and (e) as 
subsections (c) and (d), respectively; 
(5) in subsection (c) (as so redesignated)— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘shall be 
used’’ and inserting ‘‘to a recovery community 
organization shall be used’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) in the matter preceding subpara-
graph (A), by striking ‘‘may be used to— 
’’ and inserting ‘‘may be used to carry out 
the activities described in subparagraphs 
(A) through (C) in the case of a grant 
awarded to a recovery community organi-
zation and to carry out subparagraph (D) 
in the case of a grant awarded to an eligi-
ble entity.’’; 
(ii) in subparagraph (A)— 
(I) in the matter preceding clause 
(i), by striking ‘‘build’’ and inserting 
‘‘Build’’; and 
(II) in clause (vii), by striking 
the semicolon at the end and inserting 
a period; 
(iii) in subparagraph (B)— 
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(I) by striking ‘‘reduce’’ and in-
serting ‘‘Reduce’’; and 
(II) by striking ‘‘; and’’ and in-
serting a period; 
(iv) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
‘‘conduct’’ and inserting ‘‘Conduct’’; and 
(v) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(D) Provide for the establishment of re-
gional technical assistance centers to provide re-
gional technical assistance for the following: 
‘‘(i) Implementation of regionally driv-
en, peer-delivered addiction recovery sup-
port services before, during, after, or in 
lieu of addiction treatment. 
‘‘(ii) Establishment of recovery com-
munity organizations. 
‘‘(iii) Establishment of recovery com-
munity centers. 
‘‘(iv) Overdose reversal medication 
training and dissemination.’’; and 
(6) in subsection (d) (as so redesignated), by 
inserting before the period the following: ‘‘, and 
$15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 
2023’’. 
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