[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 93 (Wednesday, June 6, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3255-S3256]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2352. Mrs. CAPITO (for herself and Mrs. Shaheen) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. 
Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) and intended to be proposed to the 
bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle D of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1037. PRIORITY IN PROVISION OF FUNDS FOR NATIONAL GUARD 
                   DRUG INTERDICTION AND COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES 
                   TO STATES EXPERIENCING SEVERE MORTALITY IN 
                   CONNECTION WITH THE OPIOID CRISIS.

       (a) Element on Severity in State Drug Interdiction and 
     Counter-drug Activities Plans.--Subsection (c) of section 112 
     of title 32, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (6), by striking the period at the end and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(7) certify the age-adjusted mortality rate of the State 
     associated with opioid use disorders as based on the most 
     recent ordinal

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     ranking of States according to the age-adjusted overdose 
     mortality rates of the Centers for Disease Control and 
     Prevention.''.
       (b) Priority.--Such section is further amended--
       (1) by redesignating subsections (e) through (h) as 
     subsections (f) through and (i), respectively; and
       (2) by inserting after subsection (d) the following new 
     subsection (e):
       ``(e) Priority in Provision of Funds to States Experiencing 
     Severe Mortality in Connection With Opioid Crisis.--In 
     providing funds under subsection (a), the Secretary shall 
     afford a priority to States with an overdose mortality rate 
     that is above the national overdose mortality rate, as 
     determined by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control 
     and Prevention, in connection with the opioid crisis.''.
       (c) Annual Report Matters.--Subsection (g) of such section, 
     as redesignated by subsection (b)(1) of this section, is 
     amended in paragraph (2) by inserting before the period at 
     the end the following: ``, including the effectiveness of 
     such activities in assisting the State in addressing the 
     opioid crises (in the case of States afforded a priority in 
     the provision of funds pursuant to subsection (e))''.
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