To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish an opioid antagonist to a veteran without requiring a prescription or copayment.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5999 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5999

   To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
 Veterans Affairs to furnish an opioid antagonist to a veteran without 
                 requiring a prescription or copayment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 10, 2025

  Mr. Conaway (for himself and Ms. Morrison) introduced the following 
     bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
 Veterans Affairs to furnish an opioid antagonist to a veteran without 
                 requiring a prescription or copayment.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROVISION BY THE SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS OF AN OPIOID 
              ANTAGONIST TO A VETERAN.

    (a) Requirement.--Subchapter II of chapter 17 of title 38, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section 
(and amending the table of sections at the beginning of such chapter 
accordingly):
``Sec. 1720M. Opioid antagonists.
    ``The Secretary shall furnish an opioid antagonist to a veteran 
without requiring a prescription.''.
    (b) Elimination of Copayment.--Section 1722A of such title is 
amended, in subsection (a)(4), by striking all that follows ``veteran'' 
and inserting a period.
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