3.0.0 946 2026-06-24T19:10:51Z 2026-06-24T19:10:51Z Senate S S 2025-03-11 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/946 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-03-11T19:57:08Z SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act of 2025 119 2121 S 2025-06-18 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act of 2025 119 2483 HR 2025-12-01 Became Public Law No: 119-44. Contained in public law CRS Related bill CRS Bipartisan Health Care Act 119 891 S 2025-03-06 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Related bill CRS Lower Costs for Everyday Americans Act 119 1768 HR 2025-03-03 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Budget, the Judiciary, and Education and Workforce, 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. Related bill CRS 2025-03-11 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2025-03-11 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001267 Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO] Michael Bennet D CO N C001035 Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] Susan Collins R ME M. 2025-03-11 True S.946 is contained in the text of H.R.2483, which became Public Law 119-44.]]> Health Health 2025-03-31T15:46:20Z 00 2025-03-11 Introduced in Senate 2026-06-24T19:08:25Z Medication Access and Training Expansion Improvement Act or the MATE Improvement Act

This bill expands the types of organizations that may provide required training for practitioners registering with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to dispense (i.e., prescribe or administer) certain controlled substances.

Current law requires health care practitioners to register with the DEA and complete a one-time training on substance use disorders from specified entities in order to dispense schedule II-V controlled substances. Practitioners who graduated within the last five years from specified types of schools and whose curriculum included similar training on substance use disorders are exempt from having to receive this additional training.

The bill adds several organizations (e.g., the American Academy of Family Physicians) to the list of entities that may provide the required one-time training for physicians or other practitioners. It also expands the types of practitioners who are exempt from this training requirement to include those who graduated from schools of podiatric medicine or schools of pharmacy within the last five years and received similar training as part of their curriculums.

The bill applies retroactively, taking effect as if enacted on December 29, 2022.

]]> MATE Improvement Act Display Title 45 MATE Improvement Act 2025-03-29T02:23:23Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 MATE Improvement Act 2025-03-29T02:23:19Z Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Medication Access and Training Expansion Improvement Act 2025-03-29T02:23:19Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to clarify training requirements for prescribers of controlled substances. 2025-03-29T02:18:55Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-03-11T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s946is/xml/BILLS-119s946is.xml 2025-03-11 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.