Opioid Patients’ Right to Know Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-1185
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Trone, David J. [D-MD-6]
Introduced: 2021-02-18
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Health information and medical records

Health programs administration and funding

Prescription drugs

State and local government operations
Latest action: action_date: 2021-02-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-02-18
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Opioid Patients' Right to Know Act of 2021</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to award grants to states to educate health care providers about opioid prescribing practices.</p> <p>To receive a grant, a state must have a law or regulation that requires providers to, before issuing an initial opioid prescription to treat acute pain, inform patients about the risks of opioids and the availability of non-opioid treatment alternatives.</p> <p>States must use the grants to educate providers about relevant laws or regulations and safe opioid prescribing recommendations.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1185 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 18, 2021 Mr. Trone (for himself, Mr. Reschenthaler , Ms. Leger Fernandez , and Mr. McKinley ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to certain States to inform patients about the risks of opioids and their analogues, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Opioid Patients’ Right to Know Act of 2021 . 2. Grant program to inform patients about the risks of opioids and their analogues Part J of title III of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 280b et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 392A ( 42 U.S.C. 280b–1 ) the following: 392B. Grant program to inform patients about the risks of opioids and their analogues (a) In general The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall award one grant (over the life of the program under this section) to each eligible State to inform covered health care providers about— (1) the requirement of the State described in subsection (b); and (2) recommendations for safe opioid prescribing. (b) Eligibility To be eligible to receive a grant under subsection (a), a State must have in effect a law or regulation requiring covered health care providers, before issuing a new prescription for a covered drug or analogue, to inform the patient involved, and the patient’s guardian if the patient has a guardian, about— (1) the risks of such covered drug or analogue; (2) the addictive qualities of such covered drug or analogue; and (3) non-opioid treatments to such covered drug or analogue, as appropriate. (c) Grant amount The amount of a grant to a State under this section— (1) shall be greater than the amount of each grant to a State with a smaller number of covered health providers, as estimated by the Secretary; (2) shall not exceed $1,000,000; and (3) subject to the availability of funds, shall not be less than $750,000. (d) Definitions For purposes of this section: (1) Covered drug or analogue The term covered drug or analogue means a drug that is or contains an opioid (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act) or an analogue of an opioid. (2) Covered health care provider The term covered health care provider means a health care provider who issues prescriptions for a covered drug or analogue for the relief of acute pain. (e) Authorization of appropriations There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2031. .