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Safe Prescribing Through Reporting Act of 2025
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the disclosure of certain records relating to substance use disorder medications to State prescription drug monitoring programs, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill would amend federal law to allow health records related to substance use disorder medications to be shared with state prescription drug monitoring programs when state law requires such disclosure. Currently, federal privacy protections restrict certain health information, and this bill creates an exception specifically for substance use disorder medication records going to state monitoring systems. The change only applies when state law mandates the disclosure, giving states flexibility to set their own reporting requirements.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Kennedy, Mike [R-UT-3] (R-UT)
7 cosponsors
Actions (2)
- May 23, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. · house
- May 23, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 23, 2025
Mr. Kennedy of Utah introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the disclosure of certain records relating to substance use disorder medications to State prescription drug monitoring programs, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Safe Prescribing Through Reporting Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN RECORDS RELATING TO SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER MEDICATIONS TO STATE PRESCRIPTION DRUG MONITORING PROGRAMS.
Section 543(b)(2) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290dd-2(b)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(E) To the applicable prescription drug monitoring program of a State if—
“(i) such record relates to the prescribing or dispensing of a substance use disorder medication; and
“(ii) such disclosure is required by applicable State law.”. <all>
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