[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4874 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4874

    To require that States receiving grants under the Harold Rogers 
 Prescription Drug Monitoring Program set aside sufficient amounts to 
 facilitate electronic information sharing among States in compliance 
    with the Prescription Monitoring Information Exchange National 
                 Architecture, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 23, 2016

  Mr. Meehan (for himself, Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
     Gibson, Mr. Dold, Mr. Norcross, Mr. Guinta, and Mr. Mulvaney) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require that States receiving grants under the Harold Rogers 
 Prescription Drug Monitoring Program set aside sufficient amounts to 
 facilitate electronic information sharing among States in compliance 
    with the Prescription Monitoring Information Exchange National 
                 Architecture, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Prevent Abuse By Using Interstate 
Exchange Act of 2016'' or as the ``Prevent ABUSE Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRED SET ASIDE TO ENSURE INTEROPERABILITY.

    Beginning on October 1, 2016, the Attorney General shall require as 
a condition on any grant for implementation and enhancement of a 
prescription drug monitoring program for a fiscal year to a State under 
the Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program established 
under the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 (Public Law 107-77; 115 
Stat. 748), that the State set aside not less than 20 percent of such 
grant for purposes of facilitating electronic information sharing among 
States in compliance with the Prescription Monitoring Information 
Exchange National Architecture.
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