To amend the Controlled Substances Act with regard to the provision of emergency medical services.
Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2016
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to direct the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to register an emergency medical services (EMS) agency to administer controlled substances if the agency submits an application demonstrating that it is authorized to conduct such activity in the state in which the agency practices. The DEA may deny an application if it determines that the registration is inconsistent with the public interest.
An EMS agency may obtain a single registration in each state instead of a separate registration for each location.
A registered EMS agency may deliver, store, and receive controlled substances, subject to specified conditions.
An EMS professional of a registered EMS agency may administer controlled substances in schedules II, III, IV, or V outside the physical presence of a medical director if such administration is authorized under state law and pursuant to a standing or verbal order, subject to specified conditions.
The bill specifies that a hospital-based EMS agency (i.e., an EMS agency owned or operated by a hospital) may continue to administer controlled substances under the hospital's DEA registration.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 114-804, Part I.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 114-804, Part I.
Committee on the Judiciary discharged.
Committee on the Judiciary discharged.
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Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 628.
Mr. Burgess moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6118-6120)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4365.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H6118-6120)
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6118-6120)
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate.