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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
 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.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 1 Republican 1