Title: Ensuring Access to Quality Recovery Living Act of 2018
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Ensuring Access to Quality Recovery Living Act of 2018
This bill requires the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to publish best practices for operating recovery housing, to distribute such publication to the states, and to provide technical assistance to states seeking to adopt such practices.  SAMHSA must require states to follow such best practices in order to receive a contract or grant for recovery housing. "Recovery housing" means a shared living environment free from alcohol and illegal drug use and centered on peer support and connection to services to promote recovery from substance use disorders.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2678 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2678

 To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through 
    the Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment of the 
 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to publish 
and disseminate best practices for operating recovery housing, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 16, 2018

  Mr. Kaine (for himself, Ms. Warren, Mr. Hatch, Ms. Hassan, and Mr. 
  Blumenthal) 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 direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through 
    the Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment of the 
 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to publish 
and disseminate best practices for operating recovery housing, 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 ``Ensuring Access to Quality Recovery 
Living Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. BEST PRACTICES FOR OPERATING RECOVERY HOUSING.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting 
through the Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment of the 
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration--
            (1) shall publish best practices for operating recovery 
        housing that are based on--
                    (A) the applicable domains, core principles, and 
                standards of the National Alliance for Recovery 
                Residences;
                    (B) input from other nationally accredited recovery 
                housing entities and from stakeholders; and
                    (C) input from relevant Federal agencies;
            (2) shall publish guidance, based on the best practices 
        under paragraph (1), to provide patients with information on 
        recovery home best practices;
            (3) shall disseminate such best practices to the State;
            (4) shall require States, as a condition for receiving any 
        grant or contract through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health 
        Services Administration that supports recovery housing, to 
        follow such best practices for such recovery housing; and
            (5) may provide technical assistance to States seeking to 
        adopt or implement such best practices.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) The term ``recovery housing'' means a family-like, 
        shared living environment free from alcohol and illicit drug 
        use and centered on peer support and connection to services 
        that promote sustained recovery from substance use disorders.
            (2) The term ``State'' includes any of the several States, 
        the District of Columbia, and any territory or possession of 
        the United States.
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