[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 223 (Thursday, December 31, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H9170]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    EXPANDING FINDINGS FOR FEDERAL OPIOID RESEARCH AND TREATMENT ACT

  Mrs. DINGELL. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take from the 
Speaker's table the bill (H.R. 3153) to direct the Director of the 
National Science Foundation to support research on opioid addiction, 
and for other purposes, with the Senate amendment thereto, and concur 
in the Senate amendment.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the Senate amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:
  Senate amendment:

        Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 
     following:

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; FINDINGS.

       (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Expanding 
     Findings for Federal Opioid Research and Treatment Act'' or 
     the ``EFFORT Act''.
       (b) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
       (1) research gaps currently exist in the prevention and 
     treatment of opioid addiction;
       (2) the National Science Foundation's research on opioid 
     addiction has increased understanding of the neuroscience of 
     addiction, substance abuse intervention, the role of illicit 
     supply networks, the secondary effects on families, the use 
     of technology to address the opioid epidemic, and options for 
     alternative, non-addictive therapeutics for pain; and
       (3) the National Science Foundation and the National 
     Institutes of Health have recognized that fundamental 
     questions in basic, clinical, and translational research 
     would benefit greatly from multidisciplinary approaches and 
     collaboration.

     SEC. 2. NSF SUPPORT OF RESEARCH ON OPIOID ADDICTION.

       The Director of the National Science Foundation, in 
     consultation with the Director of the National Institutes of 
     Health, shall support merit-reviewed and competitively 
     awarded research on the science of opioid addiction.

  Mrs. DINGELL (during the reading). Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous 
consent to dispense with the reading.
  The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman 
from Michigan?
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the original request of the 
gentlewoman from Michigan?
  There was no objection.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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