[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2125 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2125

       To improve the State response to the opioid abuse crisis.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 14, 2017

 Mrs. Shaheen (for herself, Mrs. Capito, Ms. Hassan, Mr. Manchin, Mr. 
  Coons, and Mrs. McCaskill) introduced the following bill; which was 
 read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 
                              and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
       To improve the State response to the opioid abuse crisis.

    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 ``Targeted Opioid Funding Act''.

SEC. 2. STATE RESPONSE TO THE OPIOID ABUSE CRISIS.

    Subsection (c)(1) of section 1003 of the 21st Century Cures Act (42 
U.S.C. 290ee-3 note) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``an incidence or prevalence of opioid use 
        disorders'' and inserting ``a prevalence of opioid use 
        disorders, and a mortality rate associated with opioid use 
        disorders,''; and
            (2) by inserting ``, in amounts not less than $5,000,000,'' 
        after ``award grants''.
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