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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 617 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To permit the Attorney General to award grants for accurate data on opioid- |
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| 6 | 6 | | related overdoses, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY18, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. S |
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| 10 | 10 | | COTTof Florida (for himself and Mr. WELCH) introduced the following |
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| 11 | 11 | | bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To permit the Attorney General to award grants for accurate |
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| 14 | 14 | | data on opioid-related overdoses, and for other purposes. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Overcoming Prevalent 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Inadequacies in Overdose Information Data Sets Act’’ or 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | the ‘‘OPIOIDS Act’’. 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. ACCURATE DATA ON OPIOID-RELATED OVERDOSES. 7 |
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| 22 | 22 | | The Attorney General may award grants to States, 8 |
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| 23 | 23 | | territories, and localities to support improved data and 9 |
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| 24 | 24 | | surveillance on opioid-related overdoses, including for ac-10 |
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| 27 | 27 | | •S 617 IS |
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| 28 | 28 | | tivities to improve postmortem toxicology testing, data 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | linkage across data systems throughout the United States, 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | electronic death reporting, or the comprehensiveness of 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | data on fatal and nonfatal opioid-related overdoses. 4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | SEC. 3. LAW ENFORCEMENT GRANTS. 5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (a) I |
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| 34 | 34 | | NGENERAL.—The Attorney General shall make 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | grants to local law enforcement agencies and forensic lab-7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | oratories in communities with high rates of drug overdoses 8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | for the purpose of— 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (1) training to help officers identify overdoses; 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (2) upgrading essential systems for tracing 11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | drugs and processing samples in forensic labora-12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | tories to provide timely, accurate, and standard data 13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | reporting to the National Forensic Laboratory Infor-14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | mation System; or 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (3) training to better trace criminals through 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | the darknet. 17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (b) M |
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| 47 | 47 | | ANDATORYREPORTING.—None of the funds 18 |
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| 48 | 48 | | made under subsection (a) may be used by grantees that 19 |
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| 49 | 49 | | do not submit to the National Forensic Laboratory Infor-20 |
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| 50 | 50 | | mation System reports on overdose data. 21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (c) F |
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| 52 | 52 | | EDERALLAWENFORCEMENT TRAININGCEN-22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | TERS.—Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers shall 23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | provide training to State and local law enforcement agen-24 |
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| 57 | 57 | | •S 617 IS |
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| 58 | 58 | | cies on how to best coordinate with State and Federal 1 |
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| 59 | 59 | | partners for tracking drug-related activity. 2 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (d) COPS G |
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| 61 | 61 | | RANTS.—Section 1701(b) of the Omni-3 |
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| 62 | 62 | | bus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 4 |
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| 63 | 63 | | U.S.C. 10381) is amended— 5 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (1) in paragraph (23), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 6 |
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| 65 | 65 | | end; 7 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (2) in paragraph (24), by striking the period at 8 |
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| 67 | 67 | | the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 9 |
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| 68 | 68 | | (3) by adding at the end the following: 10 |
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| 69 | 69 | | ‘‘(24) to provide training and resources for con-11 |
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| 70 | 70 | | tainment devices to prevent secondary exposure to 12 |
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| 71 | 71 | | fentanyl and other substances for first responders.’’. 13 |
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| 72 | 72 | | SEC. 4. OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY RE-14 |
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| 73 | 73 | | FORM. 15 |
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| 74 | 74 | | (a) I |
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| 75 | 75 | | NGENERAL.—The Drug Enforcement Adminis-16 |
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| 76 | 76 | | tration shall develop uniform reporting standards for 17 |
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| 77 | 77 | | inputting data into the National Forensic Laboratory In-18 |
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| 78 | 78 | | formation System for purity, formulation, and weight to 19 |
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| 79 | 79 | | allow for better comparison across jurisdictions and be-20 |
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| 80 | 80 | | tween agencies and the sharing of data. 21 |
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| 81 | 81 | | (b) C |
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| 82 | 82 | | LARIFICATION.—Nothing in subsection (a) may 22 |
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| 83 | 83 | | be construed to require the creation of new or increased 23 |
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| 84 | 84 | | obligations or reporting requirements on State or local lab-24 |
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| 85 | 85 | | oratories. 25 |
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| 89 | 89 | | SEC. 5. DEA TESTING. 1 |
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| 90 | 90 | | The Drug Enforcement Administration shall submit 2 |
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| 91 | 91 | | to Congress, as part of the annual budget process, a spe-3 |
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| 92 | 92 | | cific line item for the level of funding necessary for the 4 |
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| 93 | 93 | | Fentanyl Signature Profiling Program. 5 |
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