Title: Peer Support Communities of Recovery Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Peer Support Communities of Recovery Act
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to award grants to nonprofits that focus on substance use disorder to establish regional technical assistance centers to provide assistance regarding implementation of peer-delivered addiction recovery support services, establishment of recovery community organizations and centers, and overdose reversal medication.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5587 Introduced in House (IH)]

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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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 23, 2018

 Mr. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico (for himself and Mr. Johnson of Ohio) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 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 Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Peer Support Communities 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 ``Definition'' 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 redesignated) 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 entity' 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--
                            ``(i) focused on substance use disorder;
                            ``(ii) established by individuals in 
                        personal 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 
                organization, 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);
            (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 subparagraph 
                        (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 organization and to carry 
                        out subparagraph (D) in the case of a grant 
                        awarded to an eligible 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)--
                                    (I) by striking ``reduce'' and 
                                inserting ``Reduce''; and
                                    (II) by striking ``; and'' and 
                                inserting 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 regional 
                technical assistance centers to provide regional 
                technical assistance for the following:
                            ``(i) Implementation of regionally driven, 
                        peer-delivered addiction recovery support 
                        services before, during, after, or in lieu of 
                        addiction treatment.
                            ``(ii) Establishment of recovery community 
                        organizations.
                            ``(iii) Establishment of recovery community 
                        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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