[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4846 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4846

     To reauthorize a program of grants to hospitals and emergency 
 departments to develop, implement, enhance, or study alternatives to 
          opioids for pain management, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 29, 2021

Mr. Pascrell (for himself, Mr. McKinley, Ms. DeGette, and Mr. Wenstrup) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
     To reauthorize a program of grants to hospitals and emergency 
 departments to develop, implement, enhance, or study alternatives to 
          opioids for pain management, 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.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Alternatives to Opioids in the 
Emergency Department Reauthorization Act of 2021'' or the ``ALTO 
Reauthorization Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF EMERGENCY ALTERNATIVES TO OPIOIDS PROGRAM.

    Section 7091 of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (42 
U.S.C. 294i note) is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``demonstration'';
            (2) in the headings of subsections (a) and (b), by striking 
        ``Demonstration'' each place it appears;
            (3) in subsections (a)(1) and (b), by striking 
        ``demonstration'' each place it appears;
            (4) in subsection (f)--
                    (A) by striking ``Not later than 1 year after 
                completion of the demonstration program under this 
                section'' and inserting ``Not later than the end of 
                each of calendar years 2022 and 2028''; and
                    (B) by striking ``demonstration'' after ``results 
                of the''; and
            (5) in subsection (g), by striking ``2019 through 2021'' 
        and inserting ``2022 through 2026''.
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