To amend the Public Health Service Act to direct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide for informational materials to educate and prevent addiction in teenagers and adolescents who are injured playing youth sports and subsequently prescribed an opioid.
(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on May 10, 2016. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
John Thomas Decker Act of 2016
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to report on the availability of information regarding prescription of opioids after youth sports injury, including information on opioid use and misuse, injury treatments that do not involve opioids, and treatment for opioid addiction. (Opioids are drugs with effects similar to opium, such as heroin and certain pain medications.) The report must determine the extent this information is available to teenagers and adolescents who play youth sports, their families, youth sports groups, and health care providers.
Taking into consideration the findings of the report, HHS must develop and disseminate such information.Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Became Public Law No: 114-198.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
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. 114-558.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 114-558.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 432.
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Mr. Guthrie moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2268-2270)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4969.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H2268-2269)
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2268-2269)
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.