Comprehensive Addiction Recovery through Effective Employment and Reentry Act of 2023 or the CAREER Act of 2023
This bill reauthorizes through FY2028 the Treatment, Recovery, and Workforce Support Grant Program, which supports the ability of individuals who are in substance-use disorder treatment and recovery to live independently and participate in the workforce.
The bill also specifies that the data used to determine which states to prioritize for grants (e.g., overdose mortality rates and unemployment rates) must be based on the five-year period immediately preceding the grant cycle. It also allows grants to be used for transportation services to and from the individual's work, training, or treatment or recovery services.
[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4088 Introduced in House (IH)]
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118th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 4088
To amend the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act to reauthorize a
program to support individuals in substance use disorder treatment and
recovery to live independently and participate in the workforce, and
for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 14, 2023
Mr. Barr (for himself and Ms. Davids of Kansas) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and
the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce,
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of
the committee concerned
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A BILL
To amend the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act to reauthorize a
program to support individuals in substance use disorder treatment and
recovery to live independently and participate in the workforce, 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 ``Comprehensive Addiction Recovery
through Effective Employment and Reentry Act of 2023'' or the ``CAREER
Act of 2023''.
SEC. 2. TREATMENT, RECOVERY, AND WORKFORCE SUPPORT GRANTS.
Section 7183 of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (42
U.S.C. 290ee-8) is amended--
(1) in subsection (b), by inserting ``each'' before ``for a
period'';
(2) by amending subsection (c)(2) to read as follows:
``(2) Rates.--The rates described in this paragraph are the
following:
``(A) The amount by which the average rate of drug
overdose deaths in the State, adjusted for age, for the
period of 5 calendar years for which there is available
data, including if necessary provisional data,
immediately preceding the grant cycle (which shall be
the period of calendar years 2018 through 2022 for the
first grant cycle following the enactment of the
Comprehensive Addiction Recovery through Effective
Employment and Reentry Act of 2023) is above the
average national overdose mortality rate, as determined
by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, for the same period.
``(B) The amount by which the average rate of
unemployment for the State, based on data provided by
the Bureau of Labor Statistics, for the period of 5
calendar years for which there is available data,
including if necessary provisional data, immediately
preceding the grant cycle (which shall be the period of
calendar years 2018 through 2022 for the first grant
cycle following the enactment of the Comprehensive
Addiction Recovery through Effective Employment and
Reentry Act of 2023) is above the national average for
the same period.
``(C) The amount by which the average rate of labor
force participation in the State, based on data
provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, for the
period of 5 calendar years for which there is available
data, including if necessary provisional data,
immediately preceding the grant cycle (which shall be
the period of calendar years 2018 through 2022 for the
first grant cycle following the enactment of the
Comprehensive Addiction Recovery through Effective
Employment and Reentry Act of 2023) is below the
national average for the same period.'';
(3) in subsection (g)--
(A) in paragraphs (1) and (3), by redesignating
subparagraphs (A) and (B) as clauses (i) and (ii),
respectively, and adjusting the margins accordingly;
(B) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (3) as
subparagraphs (A) through (C), respectively, and
adjusting the margins accordingly;
(C) by striking ``An entity'' and inserting the
following:
``(1) In general.--An entity''; and
(D) by adding at the end the following:
``(2) Transportation services.--An entity receiving a grant
under this section may use the funds for providing
transportation for individuals to participate in an activity
supported by a grant under this section, which transportation
shall be to or from a place of work or a place where the
individual is receiving vocational education or job training
services or receiving services directly linked to treatment of
or recovery from a substance use disorder.'';
(4) in subsection (j)--
(A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``for each grant
cycle'' after ``grant period''; and
(B) in paragraph (2)--
(i) in the matter preceding subparagraph
(A)--
(I) by striking ``the preliminary
report'' and inserting ``each
preliminary report''; and
(II) by inserting ``for the grant
cycle'' after ``final report''; and
(ii) in subparagraph (A), by striking
``(g)(3)'' and inserting ``(g)(1)(C)''; and
(5) in subsection (k), by striking ``$5,000,000 for each of
fiscal years 2019 through 2023'' and inserting ``$12,000,000
for each of fiscal years 2024 through 2028''.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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