[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 36 (Monday, March 7, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S1320]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3442. Mr. CASSIDY 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. 
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. __. PRESCRIBER EDUCATION.

       Section 301 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 
     821) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``The Attorney General'' and inserting 
     ``(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the Attorney 
     General''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(b) A fee charged by the Attorney General under 
     subsection (a) relating to dispensing narcotic drugs in 
     schedule III, IV, or V or combinations of such drugs in 
     accordance with section 303(g)(2) shall be reduced by 50 
     percent if the practitioner has completed not less than 24 
     hours of training during the 3-year period ending on the date 
     that is 30 days earlier that the date on which an application 
     for registration under section 303(g)(2) is submitted 
     (through classroom situations, seminar at professional 
     society meetings, electronic communications, or otherwise) 
     with respect to the treatment and management of substance use 
     disorders, including opiate-dependent patients, provided by 
     the American Society of Addiction Medicine, the American 
     Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, the American Medical 
     Association, the American Osteopathic Association, the 
     American Psychiatric Association, or any other organization 
     that the Attorney General determines is appropriate for 
     purposes of this subsection after providing notice and a 
     period for public comment.''.
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