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[H.R. 1545 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.1545

                     One Hundred Fifteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
          the third day of January, two thousand and seventeen


                                 An Act


 
 To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the authority of the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs to disclose certain patient information to 
 State controlled substance monitoring programs, 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 ``VA Prescription Data Accountability 
Act 2017''.
SEC. 2. SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS DISCLOSURE OF PATIENT INFORMATION 
TO STATE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE MONITORING PROGRAMS.
    Section 5701(l) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
        (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``Under'';
        (2) by striking ``a veteran or the dependent of a veteran'' and 
    inserting ``a covered individual''; and
        (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(2) In this subsection, a `covered individual' is an individual 
who is dispensed medication prescribed by an employee of the Department 
or by a non-Department provider authorized to prescribe such medication 
by the Department.''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.