To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the executive director of a national network of State-based prescription monitoring programs under which Department of Veterans Affairs health care providers shall query such network, and for other purposes.
Veterans Opioid Abuse Prevention Act
(Sec. 2) This bill permits any Department of Veterans Affairs licensed health care provider or provider delegate accessing data on behalf of such provider to query and receive data from the national network of state-based prescription drug monitoring programs to support the safe and effective prescribing of controlled substances to patients who: (1) receive a prescription for a controlled substance, and (2) are not receiving palliative care or enrolled in hospice care.
Health care providers or delegates shall query the network in accordance with applicable Veterans Health Administration regulations and policies. No state may restrict providers or delegates from accessing the state's prescription drug monitoring program.
No state shall deny or revoke the license, registration, or certification of a licensed provider or delegate on the basis that such provider or delegate has queried or received network data.
Became Public Law No: 115-182.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Subcommittee on Health Discharged.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 115-684.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 115-684.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 527.
Mr. Dunn moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4250-4251)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3832.
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At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4268-4269)
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 377 - 2 (Roll no. 209).(text: CR H4250-4251)
Roll Call #209 (House)On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 377 - 2 (Roll no. 209). (text: CR H4250-4251)
Roll Call #209 (House)Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.