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        S.2796

                    One Hundred Seventeenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

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


                                 An Act


 
   To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
 provide for the eligibility of rural community response pilot programs 
for funding under the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Grant Program, 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 ``Rural Opioid Abuse Prevention Act''.
SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY OF RURAL COMMUNITY RESPONSE PILOT PROGRAMS FOR 
FUNDING UNDER THE COMPREHENSIVE OPIOID ABUSE GRANT PROGRAM.
    Section 3021 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10701) is amended--
        (1) in subsection (a)(1)--
            (A) in subparagraph (F), by striking ``and'';
            (B) in subparagraph (G), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; and''; and
            (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(H) a pilot program for rural areas to implement 
        community response programs that focus on reducing opioid 
        overdose deaths, which may include presenting alternatives to 
        incarceration, as described in subsection (f).''; and
        (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Rural Pilot Program.--
        ``(1) In general.--The pilot program described under this 
    subsection shall make grants to rural areas to implement community 
    response programs to reduce opioid overdose deaths. Grants issued 
    under this subsection shall be jointly operated by units of local 
    government, in collaboration with public safety and public health 
    agencies or public safety, public health and behavioral health 
    collaborations. A community response program under this subsection 
    shall identify gaps in community prevention, treatment, and 
    recovery services for individuals who encounter the criminal 
    justice system and shall establish treatment protocols to address 
    identified shortcomings. The Attorney General, through the Office 
    of Justice Programs, shall increase the amount provided as a grant 
    under this section for a pilot program by no more than five percent 
    for each of the two years following certification by the Attorney 
    General of the submission of data by the rural area on the 
    prescribing of schedules II, III, and IV controlled substances to a 
    prescription drug monitoring program, or any other centralized 
    database administered by an authorized State agency, which includes 
    tracking the dispensation of such substances, and providing for 
    interoperability and data sharing with each other such program 
    (including an electronic health records system) in each other 
    State, and with any interstate entity that shares information 
    between such programs.
        ``(2) Rules of construction.--Nothing in this subsection shall 
    be construed to--
            ``(A) direct or encourage a State to use a specific 
        interstate data sharing program; or
            ``(B) limit or prohibit the discretion of a prescription 
        drug monitoring program for interoperability connections to 
        other programs (including electronic health records systems, 
        hospital systems, pharmacy dispensing systems, or health 
        information exchanges).''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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