VA Directly Returning Opioid Prescriptions Act

VA Directly Returning Opioid Prescriptions Act

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that each VA medical center with an on-site pharmacy or a law enforcement officer has a physical location where patients may dispose of controlled substances medications.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4817 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4817

  To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that certain 
    Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities have physical 
    locations for the disposal of controlled substances medications.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 23, 2019

    Mr. Baird (for himself, Mr. Steube, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Thompson of 
    Pennsylvania, Mr. Cook, Mr. Moolenaar, Mr. Banks, Mr. Bishop of 
Georgia, Mr. Crow, Mr. Watkins, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Waltz, Mr. Pence, Mr. 
 Crenshaw, Mr. Abraham, Mr. Bost, Mr. Moulton, Ms. Stevens, Mr. Mast, 
Mr. Case, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Bucshon, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Reschenthaler, Mr. 
Bilirakis, Mr. Green of Tennessee, Mr. Allred, Mrs. Walorski, Mr. Lamb, 
 Mr. Rose of New York, Mr. Golden, Mrs. Brooks of Indiana, Mr. Bacon, 
Mr. Visclosky, Mrs. Wagner, Mrs. Luria, Mrs. Hartzler, Mrs. Miller, and 
Mr. Wenstrup) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that certain 
    Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities have physical 
    locations for the disposal of controlled substances medications.

    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 ``VA Directly Returning Opioid 
Prescriptions Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR CERTAIN DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL 
              FACILITIES TO HAVE PHYSICAL LOCATION FOR THE DISPOSAL OF 
              CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES MEDICATIONS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall ensure 
that each covered Department medical facility has a physical location 
where patients may dispose of controlled substances medications.
    (b) Covered Department Medical Facility.--In this section, the term 
``covered Department medical facility'' means a medical facility with--
            (1) an on-site pharmacy; or
            (2) a law enforcement officer.
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