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H. 4165
Fiscal Impact Summary
This bill requires the Department of Public Health (DPH) to develop an educational pamphlet
regarding the use of non-opioid alternatives for the treatment of pain and publish it on the
department’s website no later than September 30, 2025. Additionally, DPH shall work with the
South Carolina Opioid Recovery Fund (ORF) to explore and utilize, to the extent permissible by
state and federal law, opioid abatement funding for educational and healthcare services related to
non-opioid alternatives.
This bill will have no expenditure impact as DPH anticipates that any additional duties created
by this bill can be managed within existing staff and appropriations.
Explanation of Fiscal Impact
Introduced on March 6, 2025
State Expenditure
This bill requires DPH to develop an educational pamphlet regarding the use of non-opioid
alternatives for the treatment of pain and publish it on the department’s website no later than
September 30, 2025. Additionally, DPH shall work with the South Carolina ORF to explore and
utilize, to the extent permissible by state and federal law, opioid abatement funding for
educational and healthcare services related to non-opioid alternatives.
DPH anticipates that any additional duties created by this bill can be managed within existing
staff and appropriations. Therefore, this bill will have no expenditure impact.
State Revenue
N/A
Local Expenditure and Revenue
N/A
Bill Number: H. 4165 Introduced on March 6, 2025
Subject: Non-opioid Pain Mana gement
Requestor: House Medical, Military, Public, and Municipal Affairs
RFA Analyst(s): Boggs
Impact Date: April 1, 2025