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S. 480: National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2016

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S. 480: National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2016

114th Congress · introduced 2015-02-12 · Health · Latest: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 440.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2015-02-12 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 440. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2016

Plain summary

National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2016 (Sec. 3) This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend through FY2021 the controlled substance monitoring program, including to: allow grants to be used to maintain existing state controlled substance monitoring programs; require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to redistribute any funds that are returned among the remaining grantees; require states to report on the interoperability of their programs with federal programs and health information technology systems and whether their programs provide automatic, up-to-date, or daily information about a patient upon request; require states to provide HHS with aggregate data and other information to enable HHS to evaluate the success of state programs; and expand the program to include any commonwealth or territory of the United States. The Drug Enforcement Administration, HHS, a state Medicaid program, a state health department, or a state substance abuse agency receiving nonidentifiable information from a controlled substance monitoring database for research purposes may make that information available to other entities for research purposes. HHS is no longer required to give preference for grants related to drug abuse to states with controlled substance monitoring programs. A state receiving a grant for a controlled substance monitoring program must: (1) facilitate prescriber and dispenser use of the controlled substance monitoring system, and (2) educate prescribers and dispensers on the benefits of the system.

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Official text

National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2016

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Reported to Senate with amendment(s))

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] · 12 cosponsors

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Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Susan M. Collins (R-ME)

Sponsor's campaign money: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] reported raising $176,810 (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong114-s480 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114