Opioid Minority Health Report to Congress Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-5616
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2018-04-25
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alternative treatments

Congressional oversight

Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Drug, alcohol, tobacco use

Government information and archives

Government studies and investigations

Health care coverage and access

Health programs administration and funding

Medicaid

Medical research

Medicare

Minority health

Prescription drugs
Latest action: action_date: 2018-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-04-25
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Opioid Minority Health Report to Congress Act of 2018 </b></p> <p>This bill requires the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities to report annually on the impact of the opioid epidemic on racial and ethnic minority groups, including the scope of the epidemic, whether expansion of coverage for medication-assisted treatment under the Medicare and Medicaid programs could decrease opioid use and overdose deaths, and the extent of participation by such groups in pain management clinical trials. </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5616 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 25, 2018 Ms. Clarke of New York (for herself, Mr. Rush , Mr. Butterfield , and Ms. Kelly of Illinois ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce , and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means , for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL To require the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities to submit to Congress a report on the impact of the opioid epidemic on minority communities.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Opioid Minority Health Report to Congress Act of 2018 . 2. National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities report on the impact of the opioid epidemic on minority communities Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities shall submit to the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committees on Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, and make public on the Internet website of Department of Health and Human Services, a report on the impact of the opioid epidemic on racial and ethnic minority groups (as defined in section 1707(g) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 300u–6(g) )), including the following: (1) The scope of the epidemic within such racial and ethnic minority groups with respect to the use of prescription pain killers and illicit drug use, including synthetics. (2) The extent to which, and funding recommendations for how, the expansion of coverage under the Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act and the Medicaid program under title XIX of such Act of medication-assisted treatment and other treatment options could decrease the incidence of opioids use and of deaths caused by opioids overdoses. (3) The role of participation of such racial and minority groups in clinical trials for pain management therapy and alternatives to opioids pain management and recommendations on how to increase such participation of such groups in such clinical trials.