IIB 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5587 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JUNE 13, 2018 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, 
Labor, and Pensions 
AN ACT 
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, 
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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)— 
(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— 
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‘‘(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— 
‘‘(i) focused on substance use dis-
order; 
‘‘(ii) established by individuals in per-
sonal or 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 allow such organizations to use 
such grant funds to carry out the activities de-
scribed in subparagraphs (A) through (C) of 
subsection (c)(2); and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(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); 
(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’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A), in the matter 
preceding clause (i), by inserting before 
‘‘build’’ the following: ‘‘in the case of a 
grant awarded to a recovery community or-
ganization,’’; 
(ii) in subparagraph (B)— 
(I) by inserting before ‘‘reduce’’ 
the following: ‘‘in the case of a grant 
awarded to a recovery community or-
ganization,’’; and 
(II) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(iii) in subparagraph (C)— 
(I) by inserting before ‘‘conduct’’ 
the following: ‘‘in the case of a grant 
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awarded to a recovery community or-
ganization,’’; and 
(II) by striking the period at the 
end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(iv) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(D) in the case of a grant awarded to an 
eligible entity, provide for the establishment of 
regional technical assistance centers to provide 
regional technical assistance for the following: 
‘‘(i) Implementation of regionally driv-
en, peer-delivered addiction recovery sup-
port services before, during, after, or in 
conjunction with addiction treatment. 
‘‘(ii) Establishment of recovery com-
munity organizations. 
‘‘(iii) Establishment of recovery com-
munity centers.’’; and 
(6) in subsection (d) (as so redesignated), by 
inserting before the period the following: ‘‘, and 
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$15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 
2023’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 12, 2018. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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