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.

Bill: 115-hr-5408
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Brat, Dave [R-VA-7]
Introduced: 2018-03-23
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Community life and organization

Drug, alcohol, tobacco use

Health programs administration and funding

Health promotion and preventive care
Latest action: action_date: 2018-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-03-23
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>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&nbsp;with a&nbsp;substance use disorder.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5408 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 23, 2018 Mr. Brat introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 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.

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.