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S 2609 115th Congress Senate Health

Recovery COACH Act

Introduced: March 22, 2018 Introduced by: Murphy, Christopher Democratic · Connecticut See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Mar 22, 2018
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Recovery Coaches Offer Addiction Counseling and Healing Act or the Recovery COACH Act

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to award three-year grants to state alcohol and drug agencies for: (1) developing, expanding, and enhancing the use of recovery coaches in hospital emergency departments through a recovery community organization; and (2) supporting recovery community organizations that recruit, train, and supervise recovery coaches for hospital emergency departments. A recovery coach refers to a person who has knowledge of or experience with recovery from a substance use disorder and has completed training from a recovery community organization.

What's happening now March 22, 2018

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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Capito, Shelley Moore
West Virginia · Mar 22, 2018
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2609: Recovery COACH Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2609/
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"S. 2609: Recovery COACH Act." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2609/.
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S. 2609, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2609/.
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