[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 2, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1234-S1235]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3401. Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Mr. Kirk) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3378 proposed by Mr. Grassley 
(for himself, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Portman, Ms. Klobuchar, 
Ms. Ayotte, Mr. Graham, Mr.

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Coons, Mr. Cornyn, and Mr. Durbin) 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:

     SEC. ___. HEROIN RESPONSE STRATEGY.

       Section 707 of the Office of National Drug Control Policy 
     Reauthorization Act of 1998 (21 U.S.C. 1706) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (o)--
       (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``, heroin, opioid, and 
     synthetic drugs'' after ``methamphetamine''; and
       (B) in paragraph (2)--
       (i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``, heroin, opioid, 
     and synthetic drug'' after ``methamphetamine'';
       (ii) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``, heroin, opioids, 
     synthetic drugs,'' after ``methamphetamine''; and
       (iii) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ``, heroin, 
     opioids, synthetic drugs,'' after ``methamphetamine''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(r) Heroin and Opioid Response Strategy Implementation.--
     Using discretionary funds made available under this section, 
     the Director, in consultation with the official in charge of 
     each high intensity drug trafficking area, is authorized to 
     implement a heroin and opioid response strategy in high 
     intensity drug trafficking areas on a nationwide basis by--
       ``(1) coordinating multi-disciplinary efforts to address 
     the threat of heroin and opioids;
       ``(2) increasing data sharing among public safety and 
     public health officials concerning heroin and opioid abuse 
     trends and related crime; and
       ``(3) enabling collaborative deployment of intervention, 
     enforcement, and prevention resources to address heroin and 
     opioid addiction and heroin and opioid trafficking.''.
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