National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-480
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2015-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal justice information and records
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Licensing and registrations
Medical research
Prescription drugs
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: 

National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2015

 
Amends the National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act of 2005 to include as a purpose of state-administered controlled substance monitoring systems ensuring access to prescription history information for the investigative purposes of appropriate law enforcement, regulatory, and state professional licensing authorities. 
 
 Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise and reauthorize through FY2020 the controlled substance monitoring program, including to:
 
 
allow grants to be used to maintain and operate existing state controlled substance monitoring programs, 
 
require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to redistribute any funds that are returned among the remaining grantees,
 
require a state to provide HHS with aggregate data and other information to enable HHS to evaluate the success of the state's program, and
 
expand the program to include any commonwealth or territory of the United States.
 
 
Allows the Drug Enforcement Administration, HHS, a state Medicaid program, a state health department, or a state substance abuse agency receiving nonidentifiable information from a controlled substance monitoring database for research purposes to make that information available to other entities for research purposes.
 
Requires a state receiving a grant to: (1) facilitate prescriber and dispenser use of the state's controlled substance monitoring system, and (2) educate prescribers and dispensers on the benefits of the system both to them and society.
 
 

action_date: 2016-04-27
text: 

National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2016

 
 (Sec. 3) This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend through FY2021 the controlled substance monitoring program, including to:
 
 
allow grants to be used to maintain existing state controlled substance monitoring programs;
 
require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to redistribute any funds that are returned among the remaining grantees;
 
require states to report on the interoperability of their programs with federal programs and health information technology systems and whether their programs provide automatic, up-to-date, or daily information about a patient upon request;
 
require states to provide HHS with aggregate data and other information to enable HHS to evaluate the success of state programs; and
 
expand the program to include any commonwealth or territory of the United States.
 
 
 The Drug Enforcement Administration, HHS, a state Medicaid program, a state health department, or a state substance abuse agency receiving nonidentifiable information from a controlled substance monitoring database for research purposes may make that information available to other entities for research purposes.
 
HHS is no longer required to give preference for grants related to drug abuse to states with controlled substance monitoring programs.
 
 A state receiving a grant for a controlled substance monitoring program must: (1) facilitate prescriber and dispenser use of the controlled substance monitoring system, and (2) educate prescribers and dispensers on the benefits of the system.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-04-27
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 440.
action_date: 2016-04-27
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Alexander with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2016-04-27
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Alexander with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2016-03-16
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate