Title: Mitigating the Methamphetamine Epidemic and Promoting Tribal Health Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Mitigating the Methamphetamine Epidemic and Promoting Tribal Health Act or the Mitigating METH Act
This bill amends the 21st Century Cures Act to make Indian tribes eligible for funding under the opioid grant program for states. In addition, the bill expands the grant program to allow states and tribes to use grants for the prevention and treatment of the use of other substances, such as methamphetamine, that have a substantial public health impact on states or tribes.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2270 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2270

   To make improvements to the account for the State response to the 
             opioid abuse crisis to improve tribal health.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 21, 2017

 Mr. Daines (for himself, Ms. Harris, Mr. Merkley, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. 
 Murkowski, and Ms. Baldwin) introduced the following bill; which was 
 read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 
                              and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
   To make improvements to the account for the State response to the 
             opioid abuse crisis to improve tribal health.

    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 ``Mitigating the Methamphetamine 
Epidemic and Promoting Tribal Health Act'' or the ``Mitigating METH 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ACCOUNT FOR THE STATE RESPONSE TO THE OPIOID ABUSE CRISIS.

    Section 1003 of the 21st Century Cures Act (42 U.S.C. 290ee-3 note) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``and Tribal'' 
                after ``State'';
                    (B) in paragraph (2)(A)(ii), by striking 
                ``$500,000,000'' and inserting ``$525,000,000''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (3)(B), by inserting ``and 
                Tribal'' after ``State'';
            (2) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) in the paragraph heading, by striking 
                        ``State response to the opioid'' and inserting 
                        ``state and tribal response to the opioid'';
                            (ii) in the first sentence, by inserting 
                        ``and Indian tribes and Tribal organizations 
                        (as the terms `Indian tribes' and `tribal 
                        organizations' are defined in the Indian Self-
                        Determination and Education Assistance Act)'' 
                        after ``grants to States''; and
                            (iii) in the second sentence, by inserting 
                        ``and Tribes'' after ``States'' each place that 
                        such term appears;
                    (B) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
                        (A)--
                                    (I) by inserting ``, Tribe, or 
                                Tribal organization'' after ``to a 
                                State'';
                                    (II) by inserting ``or Tribal'' 
                                after ``by the State''; and
                                    (III) by inserting ``or by a Tribe 
                                or Tribal organization'' after ``et 
                                seq.)'';
                            (ii) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 
                        ``and Tribal'' after ``State'';
                            (iii) in subparagraph (E), by inserting 
                        ``or Tribe'' after ``as the State''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Other substances.--A State or Indian tribe may use 
        grants awarded under this section for prevention and treatment 
        of the use of other substances such as methamphetamine, if the 
        use of such other substances is determined by the State or 
        tribe to have a substantial public health impact on the State 
        or tribe.''; and
            (3) in subsection (d), by inserting ``, Tribe, or tribal 
        organization'' after ``A State''.
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