S.Amdt. 4019

SA 4019. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill H.R. 6, to provide for opioid use disorder
prevention, recovery, and treatment, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. ANNUAL FEE.

(a) In General.--Each year, beginning with calendar year
1999, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall assess
a fee against each prescription drug manufacturer that, at
any time during the applicable calendar year, manufactured
any opioid drug. Such fee, with respect to such a
manufacturer, shall be in an amount, as determined by such
Secretary, that bears the same relationship to $2,000,000,000
as the market share of any opioid drugs manufactured by such
manufacturer during the applicable calendar year bears to the
total market for opioid drugs during such year.
(b) Transfers to Block Grant Programs.--For each year that
the Secretary of Health and Human Services assesses fees
under subsection (a), the Secretary of the Treasury shall
transfer from the general fund of the Treasury to the
Secretary of Health and Human Services an amount equal to the
amount of such fees, for purposes of carrying out the
substance abuse prevention and treatment block grant under
subpart II of part B of title XIX of the Public Health
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300x-21 et seq.).
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