    [United States Statutes at Large, Volume 134, 116th Congress, 2nd Session]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    Public Law 116-335
    116th Congress

    An Act

    To direct the Director of the National Science Foundation to support
    research on opioid addiction, and for other purposes. <>

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
    United States of America in Congress assembled, <>
    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.

    Approved January 13, 2021.

    LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 3153:
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    HOUSE REPORTS: No. 116-131 (Comm. on Science, Space, and Technology).
    SENATE REPORTS: No. 116-248 (Comm. on Commerce, Science, and
    Transportation).
    CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
    Vol. 165 (2019):
    July 23, considered and passed
    House.
    Vol. 166 (2020):
    Dec. 21, considered and passed
    Senate, amended.
    Dec. 31, House concurred in Senate
    amendment.