Ensuring Patient Access to Substance Use Disorder Treatments Act of 2018
Latest action · May 9, 2018 Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 7, 2018
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Ensuring Patient Access to Substance Use Disorder Treatments Act of 2018
This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to allow a pharmacy to deliver a controlled substance to a practitioner, in accordance with a prescription, to be administered to a specific patient for maintenance or detoxification treatment or through an intrathecal pump.
The bill directs the Government Accountability Office to report to Congress on access to and the potential diversion of controlled substances administered by injection, implantation, or through the use of an intrathecal pump.
Cosponsors 7
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 7, 2018 to Jun 12, 2018; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MN | Richard M. Nolan | Original | Mar 7, 2018 |
| R-NY | Elise M. Stefanik | Mar 15, 2018 | |
| R-GA | Karen C. Handel | Mar 15, 2018 | |
| R-NC | David Rouzer | Mar 22, 2018 | |
| R-TN | Marsha Blackburn | May 9, 2018 | |
| R-OR | Greg Walden | May 22, 2018 | |
| R-NY | Claudia Tenney | Jun 12, 2018 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Mar 7, 2018Markup May 9, 2018 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Mar 9, 2018Markup Apr 25, 2018Reported Apr 25, 2018 | |
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Mar 7, 2018 |
| Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee | Referred Apr 6, 2018 |
Actions 8
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 9, 2018Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- May 9, 2018Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
- Apr 25, 2018Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Apr 25, 2018Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
- Apr 6, 2018Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
- Mar 9, 2018Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Mar 7, 2018Introduced in House
- Mar 7, 2018Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Jun 7, 2018H.R. 5202, the Ensuring Patient Access to Substance Use Disorder Treatments Act of 2018As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on May 9, 2018
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 164, no. 40, March 7, 2018, page H1477.
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 916 | Ensuring Patient Access to Substance Use Disorder Treatments Act of 2018 | Related bill | May 25, 2018 |
| S 2680 | Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 | Related bill | May 7, 2018 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide for the delivery of a controlled substance by a pharmacy to an administering practitioner.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Ensuring Patient Access to Substance Use Disorder Treatments Act of 2018
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 7, 2018Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
