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To amend the 21st Century Cures Act to improve the administration, oversight, and impact of opioid use disorder grants, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill would amend the 21st Century Cures Act to increase oversight and accountability for opioid use disorder grants. It requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a standardized system for collecting quarterly data from states receiving these grants, including how funds are spent, who receives the money, and how many individuals are served. The bill also requires enhanced reporting to Congress on all grant recipients and subrecipients and their funding levels.
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- Jul 10, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. · house
- Jul 10, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 10, 2025
Mr. McDowell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To amend the 21st Century Cures Act to improve the administration, oversight, and impact of opioid use disorder grants, 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 “Clarity for Opioid-Use Reduction and Expenditures Act” or the “CURE Act”.
SEC. 2. IMPROVING ADMINISTRATION, OVERSIGHT, AND IMPACT OF OPIOID USE DISORDER GRANTS.
(a) Accountability and Oversight.—Subsection (c) of section 1003 of the 21st Century Cures Act (42 U.S.C. 290ee-3a) is amended to read as follows:
“(c) Accountability and Oversight.—
“(1) Standardized system for data collection.—The Secretary shall develop and implement a standardized system for collecting data from States receiving grants under subsection
(b).
“(2) Submission of data.—A State receiving a grant under subsection (b) shall submit to the Secretary, through the standardized system referred to in paragraph (1), on a quarterly basis, a description of—
“(A) the purposes for which the grant funds received by the State under such subsection for the preceding fiscal year were expended and a description of the activities of the State under the grant;
“(B) the ultimate recipients of amounts provided to the State, including the name, location, and taxpayer identification number of any grant subrecipients;
“(C) the number of individuals served through the grant; and
“(D) such other information as determined appropriate by the Secretary.
“(3) Use of other federal grant-tracking systems.—The Secretary shall, in collecting data through the standardized system referred to in paragraph (1), to the extent feasible, make use of other Federal grant-tracking systems to avoid duplication of efforts.”.
(b) Report to Congress.—Section 1003(f) of the 21st Century Cures Act (42 U.S.C. 290ee-3a(f)) is amended—
(1) by amending paragraph (2) to read as follows:
“(2) the activities of the recipients and subrecipients of the grants; and”; and
(2) by amending paragraph (3) to read as follows:
“(3) each entity that receives a grant or is a subrecipient of a grant under this section, including the funding level provided to such recipient or subrecipient.”.
(c) Applicability.—The amendments made by subsections (a) and (b) shall apply beginning 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act. <all>
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