[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 32 (Monday, February 29, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1089-S1090]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SA 3326. Mr. BLUMENTHAL submitted an amendment intended to be
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proposed by him to the bill S. 524, to authorize the Attorney General
to award grants to address the national epidemics of prescription
opioid abuse and heroin use; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
__. Limitation on Copayments for Naloxone.--Section 2713(a)
of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300gg-13) is
amended--
(1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``and'' at the end;
(2) in paragraphs (3) and (4), by striking the period and
inserting a semicolon;
(3) in paragraph (5), by striking the period and inserting
``; and''; and
(4) by adding at the end the following:
``(6) the prescription of naloxone or any opioid overdose
anecdote drug.''.
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