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<item congress="114" measure-type="s" measure-number="2772" measure-id="id114s2772" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2016-04-11" update-date="2016-04-14">
<title>A bill to eliminate the requirement that veterans pay a copayment to the Department of Veterans Affairs to receive opioid antagonists or education on the use of opioid antagonists.</title>
<summary summary-id="id114s2772v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2016-04-14">
<action-date>2016-04-11</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>This bill exempts from the requirement that veterans pay a Department of Veterans Affairs copayment for:</p> <ul> <li>any opioid antagonists furnished to a veteran at high risk for overdose of a specific medication or substance in order to reverse the effect of such an overdose, and</li> <li>education on their use.</li> </ul>]]></summary-text>
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<dc:contributor>Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress</dc:contributor>
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