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H.R. 9599 117th Congress House

Heidi’s Law

Official title: To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to revise the Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs to include testing for met… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to revise the Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs to include testing for methadone use and to require the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations to include testing for methadone use in Department of Transportation drug tests.

Introduced: December 15, 2022 Introduced by: Christopher H. Smith Republican · New Jersey See on congress.gov
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Dec 16, 2022
Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
Dec 16, 2022
Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Dec 16, 2022
Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
Dec 15, 2022
Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Dec 15, 2022
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 Latest action December 16, 2022

Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.

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Heidi's Law

This bill revises the Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs to include testing for methadone and newly identified drug substances.

The Department of Health and Human Services must revise the guidelines to (1) expand the opiate category on the list of substances authorized for testing to include methadone, and (2) add any new drugs which may not have been previously included on such list.

The Department of Transportation must update its regulations containing procedures for transportation employee workplace drug and alcohol testing programs to include testing for methadone and newly identified drug substances.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 9599: Heidi’s Law. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-9599/
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"H.R. 9599: Heidi’s Law." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-9599/.
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H.R. 9599, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-9599/.
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