Title: TREAT Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
The Reforming and Expanding Access to Treatment Act or the TREAT Act
This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to allow federal payment for qualified substance use disorder services furnished to inmates in public institutions under state Medicaid programs. "Qualified substance use disorder services" include medication or behavioral treatment administered to eliminate, mitigate, treat, or cure an individual's substance abuse disorder or use or abuse of drugs.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration shall not establish, maintain, or implement any policy that restricts its statutorily authorized provision or support of substance abuse treatment for incarcerated individuals.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 982 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 982

To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to allow for payments to 
  States for substance abuse services furnished to inmates in public 
                 institutions, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 7, 2017

Mr. Turner (for himself, Ms. Tsongas, Ms. Fudge, Ms. Kaptur, Ms. Clark 
  of Massachusetts, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Conyers, and Mr. Ryan of Ohio) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to allow for payments to 
  States for substance abuse services furnished to inmates in public 
                 institutions, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``The Reforming and Expanding Access 
to Treatment Act'' or the ``TREAT Act''.

SEC. 2. PAYMENTS TO STATES UNDER MEDICAID FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES 
              FURNISHED TO INMATES IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.

    Section 1905 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396d) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(16)--
                    (A) by striking ``and, (B) for individuals'' and 
                inserting ``, (B) for individuals''; and
                    (B) by inserting before the semicolon at the end 
                the following: ``, and (C) qualified inpatient 
                substance use disorder services (as defined in such 
                subsection) for inmates of a public institution (as 
                such terms are defined for purposes of applying the 
                subdivision (A) that follows paragraph (29))''; and
            (2) in subsection (h), by adding at the end the following 
        new paragraph:
    ``(3) For purposes of subsection (a)(16)(C), the term `qualified 
inpatient substance use disorder services' means medication or 
behavioral treatment administered in furtherance of eliminating, 
mitigating, treating, or curing an individual's use or abuse of drugs 
or an individual's substance abuse disorder.''.

SEC. 3. NO SAMSHA POLICY AGAINST SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT FOR 
              INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS.

    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration shall 
not establish, maintain, or implement any memorandum of understanding 
or other policy that prohibits or restricts the Administration's 
provision or support of substance abuse treatment or related services 
for incarcerated individuals, so long as such provision or support--
            (1) is statutorily authorized (by provisions of law other 
        than this section) for such type of treatment or services; and
            (2) not statutorily prohibited or restricted with respect 
        to incarcerated individuals.
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