[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1677 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1677

To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to 
  improve access to grants and loans for evidence-based substance use 
  disorder treatment services in rural areas, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 31, 2017

  Mr. Donnelly (for himself and Mr. Strange) introduced the following 
      bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                  Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to 
  improve access to grants and loans for evidence-based substance use 
  disorder treatment services in rural areas, 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. DISTANCE LEARNING AND TELEMEDICINE.

    Section 2333(c) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade 
Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 950aaa-2(c)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
            ``(5) Substance use disorder treatment services.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Subject to subparagraph (B), the 
                Secretary shall make available not less than 20 percent 
                of amounts made available under section 2335A for 
                financial assistance under this chapter for substance 
                use disorder treatment services.
                    ``(B) Exception.--In the case of a fiscal year for 
                which the Secretary determines that there are not 
                sufficient qualified applicants to receive financial 
                assistance for substance use disorder treatment 
                services to reach the 20-percent requirement under 
                subparagraph (A), the Secretary may make available less 
                than 20 percent of amounts made available under section 
                2335A for those services.''.
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