Protecting Kids from Fentanyl Act of 2023

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4582 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4582

    To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the use of 
  Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grants to purchase life-
 saving opioid antagonists for schools and to provide related training 
    and education to students and teachers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 12, 2023

 Mr. Lamborn (for himself, Mr. Neguse, Mr. LaTurner, Mr. Phillips, Mr. 
 Allen, Mr. Webster of Florida, Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia, Mr. Davis 
of North Carolina, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Jackson of Texas, Mr. Pfluger, Mr. 
   Lawler, Mr. Tony Gonzales of Texas, and Mr. Mann) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the use of 
  Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grants to purchase life-
 saving opioid antagonists for schools and to provide related training 
    and education to students and teachers, 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 ``Protecting Kids from Fentanyl Act of 
2023''.

SEC. 2. USE OF PREVENTIVE HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES BLOCK GRANTS TO 
              PURCHASE LIFE-SAVING OPIOID ANTAGONISTS FOR SCHOOLS AND 
              TO PROVIDE RELATED TRAINING AND EDUCATION TO STUDENTS AND 
              TEACHERS.

    Section 1904(a)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
300w-3(a)(1)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (F) and (G) as (I) and 
        (J), respectively;
            (2) By inserting after subparagraph (E) the following:
    ``(F) Purchasing naloxone or other opioid antagonists for use in 
educational institutions.
    ``(G) Providing training to school nurses, teachers, school 
administrators, and school resource officers on how to administer 
naloxone or other opioid antagonists.
    ``(H) Providing fentanyl awareness classes or materials to 
students.''; and
            (3) in each of subparagraphs (I) and (J), as redesignated, 
        by striking ``(A) through (F)'' and inserting ``(A) through 
        (H)''.
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