H.R. 1502House118th Congress (2023-2025)In Committee

Comprehensive Opioid Recovery Centers Reauthorization Act of 2023

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The bill reauthorizes the Comprehensive Opioid Recovery Centers program for a new five‑year period (2024‑2028) and updates how centers demonstrate they can carry out required services. It adds new documentation rules that let centers show capacity with letters of intent from partner agencies, and it defines those partner agencies as organizations that provide mental health or substance‑use treatment. The legislation also lets centers perform their activities directly, by referral, or through contracts, with guidance on best practices and technology‑enabled collaboration.

Key Provisions

Extends the authorization of comprehensive opioid recovery centers from the previous 2019‑2023 period to 2024‑2028.
Allows centers to prove capacity using letters of intent or other documentation from defined partner agencies that deliver mental health or substance‑use treatment services.
Permits centers to carry out required activities directly, via referrals, or through contractual arrangements, with the Secretary able to issue guidance on best practices and technology‑enabled collaborative models.

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Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Health Subcommittee

March 17, 2023

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Introduced in House

March 9, 2023

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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Energy and Commerce Committee

March 9, 2023

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Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Health Subcommittee

March 17, 2023

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Introduced in HouseIssued March 9, 2023

118th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 1502

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 9, 2023

Mr. Guthrie (for himself, Mr. Peters, Mr. Bucshon, and Mr. Tonko) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

A BILL

To amend title V of the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize comprehensive opioid recovery centers, and for other purposes.

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Comprehensive Opioid Recovery Centers Reauthorization Act of 2023.

Comprehensive opioid recovery centers

(a)

Reauthorization

Section 552(j) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290ee–7(j)) is amended by striking 2019 through 2023 and inserting 2024 through 2028.

(b)

Documentation for evidence of capacity To carry out required activities

Section 552(d) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290ee–7(d)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

(3)

Documentation

(A)

In general

Evidence required to be provided under paragraph (1) may be provided through a letter of intent from partner agencies or other relevant documentation (as defined by the Secretary).

(B)

Partner agency defined

In this paragraph, the term partner agency means a non-governmental organization or other public or private entity—

(i)

the primary purpose of which is the delivery of mental health or substance use disorder treatment services; and

(ii)

with which the applicant coordinates to provide the full continuum of treatment services (as specified in subsection (g)(1)(B)) that the applicant is unable to offer on site.

(c)

Center activities carried out through third parties

Section 552(g) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290ee–7(g)) is amended in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by striking Each Center shall and all that follows through subsection (f): and inserting the following: Each Center shall, at a minimum, carry out the activities specified in this subsection directly, through referral, or through contractual arrangements. If a Center elects to carry out such activities through contractual arrangements, the Secretary may issue guidance on best practices to ensure that the Center is capable of carrying out such activities, including carrying out such activities through technology-enabled collaborative learning and capacity building models described in subsection (f) and coordinating the full continuum of treatment services specified in subparagraph (B). Such activities include the following:.