IIB 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1725 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, 
Labor, and Pensions 
AN ACT 
To amend and reauthorize the controlled substance moni-
toring program under section 399O of the Public Health 
Service Act, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National All Schedules 
Prescription Electronic Reporting Reauthorization Act of 
2015’’. 
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO PURPOSE. 
Paragraph (1) of section 2 of the National All Sched-
ules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act of 2005 (Public 
Law 109–60) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(1) foster the establishment of State-adminis-
tered controlled substance monitoring systems in 
order to ensure that— 
‘‘(A) health care providers have access to 
the accurate, timely prescription history infor-
mation that they may use as a tool for the early 
identification of patients at risk for addiction in 
order to initiate appropriate medical interven-
tions and avert the tragic personal, family, and 
community consequences of untreated addiction; 
and 
‘‘(B) appropriate law enforcement, regu-
latory, and State professional licensing authori-
ties have access to prescription history informa-
tion for the purposes of investigating drug di-
version and prescribing and dispensing prac-
tices of errant prescribers or pharmacists; and’’. 
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SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE MONI-
TORING PROGRAM. 
Section 399O of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 280g–3) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A), by striking 
‘‘or’’; 
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
the period at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; 
and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(C) to maintain and operate an existing 
State-controlled 
substance 
monitoring 
pro-
gram.’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘by the 
Secretary’’ after ‘‘Grants awarded’’; 
(2) by amending subsection (b) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(b) MINIMUM
REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary 
shall maintain and, as appropriate, supplement or revise 
(after publishing proposed additions and revisions in the 
Federal Register and receiving public comments thereon) 
minimum requirements for criteria to be used by States 
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for purposes of clauses (ii), (v), (vi), and (vii) of subsection 
(c)(1)(A).’’; 
(3) in subsection (c)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)(B)— 
(i) in the matter preceding clause (i), 
by striking ‘‘(a)(1)(B)’’ and inserting 
‘‘(a)(1)(B) or (a)(1)(C)’’; 
(ii) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘program 
to be improved’’ and inserting ‘‘program to 
be improved or maintained’’; 
(iii) by redesignating clauses (iii) and 
(iv) as clauses (iv) and (v), respectively; 
(iv) by inserting after clause (ii) the 
following: 
‘‘(iii) a plan to apply the latest ad-
vances in health information technology in 
order to incorporate prescription drug 
monitoring program data directly into the 
workflow of prescribers and dispensers to 
ensure timely access to patients’ controlled 
prescription drug history;’’; 
(v) in clause (iv), as redesignated, by 
inserting before the semicolon at the end 
‘‘and at least one health information tech-
nology system such as an electronic health 
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records system, a health information ex-
change, or an e-prescribing system’’; and 
(vi) in clause (v), as redesignated, by 
striking ‘‘public health’’ and inserting 
‘‘public health or public safety’’; 
(B) in paragraph (3)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘If a State that sub-
mits’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—If a State that sub-
mits’’; 
(ii) by striking the period at the end 
and inserting ‘‘and include timelines for 
full implementation of such interoper-
ability. The State shall also describe the 
manner in which it will achieve interoper-
ability between its monitoring program and 
health information technology systems, as 
allowable under State law, and include 
timelines for implementation of such inter-
operability.’’; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(B) MONITORING
OF
EFFORTS.—The 
Secretary shall monitor State efforts to achieve 
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interoperability, as described in subparagraph 
(A).’’; and 
(C) in paragraph (5)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘implement or im-
prove’’ and inserting ‘‘establish, improve, 
or maintain’’; and 
(ii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: ‘‘The Secretary shall redistribute 
any funds that are so returned among the 
remaining grantees under this section in 
accordance with the formula described in 
subsection (a)(2)(B).’’; 
(4) in subsection (d)— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph 
(1)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘In implementing or 
improving’’ and all that follows through 
‘‘(a)(1)(B)’’ and inserting ‘‘In establishing, 
improving, or maintaining a controlled sub-
stance monitoring program under this sec-
tion, a State shall comply, or with respect 
to a State that applies for a grant under 
subparagraph (B) or (C) of subsection 
(a)(1)’’; and 
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(ii) by striking ‘‘public health’’ and in-
serting ‘‘public health or public safety’’; 
and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) The State shall report to the Secretary 
on— 
‘‘(A) as appropriate, interoperability with 
the controlled substance monitoring programs 
of Federal departments and agencies; 
‘‘(B) as appropriate, interoperability with 
health information technology systems such as 
electronic health records systems, health infor-
mation exchanges, and e-prescribing systems; 
and 
‘‘(C) whether or not the State provides 
automatic, real-time or daily information about 
a patient when a practitioner (or the designee 
of a practitioner, where permitted) requests in-
formation about such patient.’’; 
(5) in subsections (e), (f)(1), and (g), by strik-
ing ‘‘implementing or improving’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘establishing, improving, or 
maintaining’’; 
(6) in subsection (f)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
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