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S 2772 114th Congress Senate Armed Forces and National Security Drug therapy Drug trafficking and controlled substances Health promotion and preventive care Home and outpatient care Veterans' medical care

A bill to eliminate the requirement that veterans pay a copayment to the Department of Veterans Affairs to receive opioid antagonists or education on the use of opioid antagonists.

Introduced: April 11, 2016 Introduced by: Baldwin, Tammy Democratic · Wisconsin See on congress.gov
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Apr 11, 2016
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Apr 11, 2016
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill exempts from the requirement that veterans pay a Department of Veterans Affairs copayment for:

  • any opioid antagonists furnished to a veteran at high risk for overdose of a specific medication or substance in order to reverse the effect of such an overdose, and
  • education on their use.
What's happening now April 11, 2016

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

 Related & companion bills 2
  • S 2806 Related bill Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017
  • S 2921 Related bill Veterans First Act
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 1 Republican 1
D
Whitehouse, Sheldon
Rhode Island · May 9, 2016
 R
Moran, Jerry
Kansas · Apr 11, 2016
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2772: A bill to eliminate the requirement that veterans pay a copayment to the Department of Veterans Affairs to receive opioid antagonists or education on the use of opioid antagonists.. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2772/
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"S. 2772: A bill to eliminate the requirement that veterans pay a copayment to the Department of Veterans Affairs to receive opioid antagonists or education on the use of opioid antagonists.." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2772/.
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S. 2772, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2772/.
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