[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 154 (Monday, September 17, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S6193]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4019. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill H.R. 6, to provide for opioid use disorder 
prevention, recovery, and treatment, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. ANNUAL FEE.

       (a) In General.--Each year, beginning with calendar year 
     1999, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall assess 
     a fee against each prescription drug manufacturer that, at 
     any time during the applicable calendar year, manufactured 
     any opioid drug. Such fee, with respect to such a 
     manufacturer, shall be in an amount, as determined by such 
     Secretary, that bears the same relationship to $2,000,000,000 
     as the market share of any opioid drugs manufactured by such 
     manufacturer during the applicable calendar year bears to the 
     total market for opioid drugs during such year.
       (b) Transfers to Block Grant Programs.--For each year that 
     the Secretary of Health and Human Services assesses fees 
     under subsection (a), the Secretary of the Treasury shall 
     transfer from the general fund of the Treasury to the 
     Secretary of Health and Human Services an amount equal to the 
     amount of such fees, for purposes of carrying out the 
     substance abuse prevention and treatment block grant under 
     subpart II of part B of title XIX of the Public Health 
     Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300x-21 et seq.).
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