To amend the Controlled Substances Act to promote pain management and palliative care without permitting assisted suicide and euthanasia, and for other purposes.
(Sec. 102) Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts for development and implementation of programs to provide education and training to health care professionals in pain management and palliative care. Defines "pain management and palliative care" as certain types of actions, the purpose of which is to diagnose and alleviate pain and other distressing signs and symptoms and to enhance the quality of life, not to hasten or postpone death. Adds the provisions of this paragraph to the list of provisions for which the Secretary is required to make a specified amount available and increases the amount specified.
(Sec. 103) Designates the decade beginning January 1, 2001, as the Decade of Pain Control and Research.
Title II: Use of Controlled Substances Consistent With the Controlled Substances Act - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to declare that, for that Act and any implementing regulations, alleviating pain or discomfort in the usual course of professional practice is a legitimate medical purpose for the dispensing, distributing, or administering of a controlled substance that is consistent with public health and safety, even if it may increase the risk of death.
Prohibits the Attorney General, in determining whether a registration (to manufacture, distribute, or dispense controlled substances) is consistent with the public interest, from giving any force and effect to State law authorizing or permitting assisted suicide or euthanasia, notwithstanding any other provision of the Act, and with regard to conduct after enactment of this Act. Gives the Attorney General, in an action to deny, revoke, or suspend a registration based on alleged intentions to cause or assist in causing death, the burden of proving, by clear and convincing evidence, that the intent was to cause death or assist another person in causing death. Declares that the burden is not met by proving that the applicant or registrant knew that the use of the controlled substance may increase the risk of death.
(Sec. 202) Authorizes the Attorney General to carry out education and training programs for Federal, State, and local personnel on the means by which investigation and enforcement actions by law enforcement personnel may better accommodate the necessary and legitimate use of controlled substances in pain management and palliative care.
(Sec. 203) Requires, notwithstanding any other provision of law, construing the operation of the diversion control fee account program of the Drug Enforcement Administration to include carrying out the provisions of this title (other than section 203).
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
DEBATE - The Committee has resumed debate on the amendment offered by Mrs. Johnson of Connecticut.
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - The Chair put the question on agreeing to the amendment offered by Mrs. Johnson of Connecticut by voice vote and announced that the noes had prevailed. Mrs. Johnson demanded a recorded vote and pursuant to H. Res. 339 further proceedings were postponed.
ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS - The Chair announced that proceedings will resume on amendments postponed earlier in the following order: Amendment no. 1 offered by Mr. Scott and amendment no. 2 offered by Mrs. Johnson of Connecticut.
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2260.
The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
Mr. Blumenauer moved to recommit with instructions to Commerce.
DEBATE - The House is debating the motion to recommit with instructions offered by Mr. Blumennauer for 10 minutes.
The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection.
On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by voice vote. (consideration: CR H10903)
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Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 271 - 156 (Roll no. 544).
Roll Call #544 (House)On passage Passed by recorded vote: 271 - 156 (Roll no. 544).
Roll Call #544 (House)Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on the Judiciary. Reported to Senate by Senator Hatch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 106-299. Minority views filed.
Committee on the Judiciary. Reported to Senate by Senator Hatch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 106-299. Minority views filed.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 566.