Title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for prevention and treatment of substance abuse grants to recovery community organizations, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services to use 20% of the appropriations for the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant program to award grants to recovery community organizations to provide recovery-focused addiction treatment for individuals with a substance use disorder.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5408 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5408

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for prevention and 
       treatment of substance abuse grants to recovery community 
                 organizations, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 23, 2018

   Mr. Brat 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 provide for prevention and 
       treatment of substance abuse grants to recovery community 
                 organizations, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE GRANTS TO 
              RECOVERY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 1935 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 300x-35) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``For the purpose of'' 
        and inserting ``Subject to subsection (c), for the purpose 
        of''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) Allocations for Recovery Community Organizations.--
            ``(1) In general.--Beginning with fiscal year 2019, of the 
        amounts appropriated under subsection (a) for a fiscal year, 20 
        percent of such amounts for such year shall be used by the 
        Secretary to award grants to recovery community organizations 
        for the purpose of providing recovery-focused addiction 
        treatment for individuals with a substance use disorder.
            ``(2) Recovery community organization defined.--For 
        purposes of this subsection, the term `recovery community 
        organization' means--
                    ``(A) an organization accredited by the Council on 
                Accreditation of Peer Recovery Support Services; or
                    ``(B) an independent nonprofit organization 
                described in section 547(a).''.
    (b) Technical Amendment.--Subsection (a) of section 1935 of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300x-35), as amended by subsection 
(a)(1), is further amended by striking the second period at the end.
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