[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5616 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5616

    To require the National Institute of Minority Health and Health 
Disparities to submit to Congress a report on the impact of the opioid 
                   epidemic on minority communities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 25, 2018

Ms. Clarke of New York (for herself, Mr. Rush, Mr. Butterfield, and Ms. 
Kelly of Illinois) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee 
 on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the National Institute of Minority Health and Health 
Disparities to submit to Congress a report on the impact of the opioid 
                   epidemic on minority communities.

    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 Minority Health Report to 
Congress Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES 
              REPORT ON THE IMPACT OF THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC ON MINORITY 
              COMMUNITIES.

    Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, and annually thereafter, the National Institute of Minority Health 
and Health Disparities shall submit to the Committee on Finance of the 
Senate and the Committees on Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce of 
the House of Representatives, and make public on the Internet website 
of Department of Health and Human Services, a report on the impact of 
the opioid epidemic on racial and ethnic minority groups (as defined in 
section 1707(g) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300u-
6(g))), including the following:
            (1) The scope of the epidemic within such racial and ethnic 
        minority groups with respect to the use of prescription pain 
        killers and illicit drug use, including synthetics.
            (2) The extent to which, and funding recommendations for 
        how, the expansion of coverage under the Medicare program under 
        title XVIII of the Social Security Act and the Medicaid program 
        under title XIX of such Act of medication-assisted treatment 
        and other treatment options could decrease the incidence of 
        opioids use and of deaths caused by opioids overdoses.
            (3) The role of participation of such racial and minority 
        groups in clinical trials for pain management therapy and 
        alternatives to opioids pain management and recommendations on 
        how to increase such participation of such groups in such 
        clinical trials.
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