S 2437
115th Congress
Senate
Health
Appropriations
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Indian social and development programs
Minority health
Prescription drugs
Opioid Response Enhancement Act
Introduced: February 15, 2018
Introduced by:
Baldwin, Tammy
Democratic
· Wisconsin
See on congress.gov
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 15, 2018
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Feb 15, 2018
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Opioid Response Enhancement Act
This bill amends the 21st Century Cures Act to reauthorize through FY2023 a program of grants to states and tribal entities to carry out activities addressing the opioid epidemic. It allows states and tribal entities to use the grants to carry out public health-related activities addressing other substance abuse that is a substantial or similar public health threat to the opioid epidemic.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
1