[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2772 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2772

   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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 11, 2016

Ms. Baldwin (for herself and Mr. Moran) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 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.

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

SECTION 1. ELIMINATION OF COPAYMENT REQUIREMENT FOR VETERANS RECEIVING 
              OPIOID ANTAGONISTS OR EDUCATION ON USE OF OPIOID 
              ANTAGONISTS.

    (a) Copayment for Opioid Antagonists.--Section 1722A(a) of title 
38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following 
new paragraph:
    ``(4) Paragraph (1) does not apply to opioid antagonists furnished 
under this chapter to a veteran who is at high risk for overdose of a 
specific medication or substance in order to reverse the effect of such 
an overdose.''.
    (b) Copayment for Education on Use of Opioid Antagonists.--Section 
1710(g)(3) of such title is amended--
            (1) by striking ``with respect to home health services'' 
        and inserting ``with respect to the following:
            ``(A) Home health services''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
            ``(B) Education on the use of opioid antagonists to reverse 
        the effects of overdoses of specific medications or 
        substances.''.
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