[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 78 (Tuesday, May 17, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S2899]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3995. Mr. JOHNSON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 3896 proposed by Ms. Collins (for herself, Mr. Kirk, 
Mr. Reed, and Mr. Tester) to the bill H.R. 2577, making appropriations 
for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban 
Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2016, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the 
table; as follows:

       At the end of title II of division B, add the following:
       Sec. 251. (a) Report on Opioid Abuse and Treatment.--Not 
     later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act, and not less frequently than annually thereafter, the 
     Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall publish on a publicly 
     available Internet website of the Department of Veterans 
     Affairs a report that includes the following information:
       (1) A comprehensive list of all facilities of the 
     Department offering an opioid abuse treatment program, 
     including details on the types of services available at each 
     facility.
       (2) The number of veterans treated by a health care 
     provider of the Department for opioid abuse during the year 
     preceding the publication of the report.
       (3) Of the veterans described in paragraph (2), the number 
     treated for opioid abuse in conjunction with posttraumatic 
     stress disorder, depression, or anxiety.
       (4) With respect to veterans receiving treatment for opioid 
     abuse--
       (A) the average period of time veterans reported abusing 
     opioids before beginning such treatment during the year 
     preceding the publication of the report; and
       (B) the main reasons reported to the Department by veterans 
     as to how they came to receive such treatment, including 
     self-referral or recommendation by a physician or family 
     member.
       (b) Protection of Information.--No information published 
     under subsection (a) shall include any information that 
     personally identifies a veteran.
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