S 889
117th Congress
Senate
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Prescription Drug Monitoring Act of 2021
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 22, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Mar 22, 2021
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Prescription Drug Monitoring Act of 2021
This bill imposes, as a condition on certain federal funding for the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP), additional notification and reporting requirements concerning prescriptions for potentially addictive drugs.
States or territories that receive this funding must require
- prescribers to consult the PDMP before starting treatment with such drugs, and
- dispensers to report within 24 hours to the PDMP each time they fill a prescription for such drugs.
In addition, the state agency administering a PDMP must analyze reported data for patterns of prescription drug misuse or abuse and provide certain information to prescribers, law enforcement, the public, and other states and territories.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1