[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3495 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3495

   To amend the 21st Century Cures Act to appropriate funds for the 
   Account for the State Response to the Opioid Abuse Crisis through 
               fiscal year 2023, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 27, 2017

   Mr. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico (for himself, Ms. Michelle Lujan 
Grisham of New Mexico, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. O'Halleran, Mr. 
 Evans, Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, Mr. Deutch, Ms. DeGette, 
Ms. Kuster of New Hampshire, Ms. Jayapal, and Mr. McEachin) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the 21st Century Cures Act to appropriate funds for the 
   Account for the State Response to the Opioid Abuse Crisis through 
               fiscal year 2023, 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 ``Opioid and Heroin Abuse Crisis 
Investment Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS RELATING TO THE ACCOUNT FOR THE STATE RESPONSE TO 
              THE OPIOID ABUSE CRISIS.

    Section 1003 of the 21st Century Cures Act (Public Law 114-255; 42 
U.S.C. 290ee-3 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(3), by adding at the end the 
        following new subparagraph:
                    ``(C) Appropriations after fiscal year 2018.--There 
                is authorized to be appropriated, and there is 
                appropriated, out of any monies in the Treasury not 
                otherwise appropriated, to the Account For the State 
                Response to the Opioid Abuse Crisis $500,000,000 for 
                each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023.''; and
            (2) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``and'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(3) services to underserved populations, including Native 
        Americans.''.
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