Protecting Kids from Fentanyl Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2383 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2383

    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

                             March 26, 2025

  Mr. Neguse (for himself and Mr. McDowell) 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 
2025''.

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 paragraph (1), by striking ``(A) through (F)'' and inserting 
        ``(A) through (H)''.
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