S.Amdt. 3401

SA 3401. Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Mr. Kirk) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3378 proposed by Mr. Grassley
(for himself, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Portman, Ms. Klobuchar,
Ms. Ayotte, Mr. Graham, Mr.

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Coons, Mr. Cornyn, and Mr. Durbin) to the bill S. 524, to authorize the
Attorney General to award grants to address the national epidemics of
prescription opioid abuse and heroin use; which was ordered to lie on
the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. HEROIN RESPONSE STRATEGY.

Section 707 of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
Reauthorization Act of 1998 (21 U.S.C. 1706) is amended--
(1) in subsection (o)--
(A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``, heroin, opioid, and
synthetic drugs'' after ``methamphetamine''; and
(B) in paragraph (2)--
(i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``, heroin, opioid,
and synthetic drug'' after ``methamphetamine'';
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``, heroin, opioids,
synthetic drugs,'' after ``methamphetamine''; and
(iii) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ``, heroin,
opioids, synthetic drugs,'' after ``methamphetamine''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
``(r) Heroin and Opioid Response Strategy Implementation.--
Using discretionary funds made available under this section,
the Director, in consultation with the official in charge of
each high intensity drug trafficking area, is authorized to
implement a heroin and opioid response strategy in high
intensity drug trafficking areas on a nationwide basis by--
``(1) coordinating multi-disciplinary efforts to address
the threat of heroin and opioids;
``(2) increasing data sharing among public safety and
public health officials concerning heroin and opioid abuse
trends and related crime; and
``(3) enabling collaborative deployment of intervention,
enforcement, and prevention resources to address heroin and
opioid addiction and heroin and opioid trafficking.''.
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