[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2451 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2451

To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to consider State 
 analysis and sharing of prescription drug monitoring program data in 
   determining prescription drug monitoring program grants to States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 26, 2018

  Mr. Cassidy 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 require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to consider State 
 analysis and sharing of prescription drug monitoring program data in 
   determining prescription drug monitoring program grants to States.

    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 ``Protection from Overprescribing 
Act''.

SEC. 2. CONSIDERATION IN AWARDING GRANTS TO SUPPORT STATE PDMPS.

    In determining whether to award a grant to a State in support of a 
State prescription drug monitoring program, the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall consider whether each agency of the State that 
administers the prescription drug monitoring program proactively 
analyzes data available through the State's prescription drug 
monitoring program and provides reports to law enforcement agencies, 
prescriber licensing boards, and other agencies describing any 
prescribers that repeatedly fall outside of expected norms or standard 
practices for the prescriber's field.
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