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H.R. 5261: Treatment, Education, and Community Help to Combat Addiction Act of 2018

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H.R. 5261: Treatment, Education, and Community Help to Combat Addiction Act of 2018

115th Congress · introduced 2018-03-13 · Health · Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2018-03-13 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Johnson, Bill [R-OH-6] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. 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.

What does this mean?

Official title

Treatment, Education, and Community Help to Combat Addiction Act of 2018

Plain summary

Treatment, Education, and Community Help to Combat Addiction Act of 2018 or the TEACH to Combat Addiction Act of 2018 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services to designate Regional Centers of Excellence in Substance Use Disorder Education and provide support to such centers to enhance and improve pain management and substance use disorder education through the distribution of evidence-based curricula for health care professional schools. The bill provides statutory authority for the National Institutes of Health's Centers for Excellence in Pain Education program, under which the centers provide for the coordination of the development, evaluation, and distribution of pain management curricula for health professional schools.

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Official text

Treatment, Education, and Community Help to Combat Addiction Act of 2018

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Bill [R-OH-6] · 8 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 5261, Treatment, Education, and Community Help to Combat Addiction Act of 2018 (2018-06-07)

Cosponsors on this site

Paul Tonko (D-NY), Robert E. Latta (R-OH), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)

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Bill
A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).
Statute
A written law passed by a legislature. A statute can be changed by a later law; changing a constitution needs an amendment.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr5261 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115