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114th Congress
Senate
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STOP Pain Act
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 15, 2016
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Mar 15, 2016
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Safe Treatments and Opportunities to Prevent Pain Act or the STOP Pain Act
This bill authorizes the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to intensify and coordinate NIH research into the understanding of pain, therapies for chronic pain, and alternatives to opioids (drugs with effects similar to opium) for pain treatments.
The prioritization and direction of federally funded pain research must consider recommendations made by the Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
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