[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
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[H.R. 3153 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.3153

                     One Hundred Sixteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday,
            the third day of January, two thousand and twenty


                                 An Act


 
  To direct the Director of the National Science Foundation to support 
          research on opioid addiction, 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; FINDINGS.
    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Expanding Findings 
for Federal Opioid Research and Treatment Act'' or the ``EFFORT Act''.
    (b) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
        (1) research gaps currently exist in the prevention and 
    treatment of opioid addiction;
        (2) the National Science Foundation's research on opioid 
    addiction has increased understanding of the neuroscience of 
    addiction, substance abuse intervention, the role of illicit supply 
    networks, the secondary effects on families, the use of technology 
    to address the opioid epidemic, and options for alternative, non-
    addictive therapeutics for pain; and
        (3) the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes 
    of Health have recognized that fundamental questions in basic, 
    clinical, and translational research would benefit greatly from 
    multidisciplinary approaches and collaboration.
SEC. 2. NSF SUPPORT OF RESEARCH ON OPIOID ADDICTION.
    The Director of the National Science Foundation, in consultation 
with the Director of the National Institutes of Health, shall support 
merit-reviewed and competitively awarded research on the science of 
opioid addiction.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.