H.R. 6082: Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act
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H.R. 6082: Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act
115th Congress · introduced 2018-06-13 · Health · Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2018-06-13 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Mullin, Markwayne [R-OK-2] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: 2 recorded votes in our records. Latest: House roll call 277 (2018): On Motion to Recommit with Instructions, HR6082 (2018-06-20), Failed. See all
- 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.
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Official title
Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act
Plain summary
Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to align federal privacy standards for substance use disorder (SUD) patient records more closely with standards under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Specifically, the bill authorizes the disclosure of SUD patient records without a patient's written consent to: (1) a covered entity for the purposes of treatment, payment, and health care operations, as long as the disclosure is made in accordance with HIPAA; and (2) a public health authority, as long as the content of the disclosure meets HIPAA standards regarding de-identified information. Current law authorizes disclosure of SUD patient records without a patient's written consent only to medical personnel in a medical emergency, to specified personnel for research or program evaluations, or pursuant to a court order. The bill also repeals and replaces criminal penalties for certain violations involving SUD patient records with the HIPAA civil penalty structure. It also applies HIPAA criminal penalties to wrongful disclosures of SUD patient records. In addition, the bill expands the current prohibition against using SUD patient records in criminal proceedings to include any use in specified federal, state, and local criminal and civil actions. The bill prohibits certain discrimination based on the release of SUD information under this bill.
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Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Rep. Mullin, Markwayne [R-OK-2] · 2 cosponsors
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Recorded votes
- House roll call 277 (2018): On Motion to Recommit with Instructions, HR6082 (2018-06-20): Failed
- House roll call 278 (2018): On Passage, HR6082 (2018-06-20): Passed
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-115hr6082.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/115/hr>
Record fed-us-cong115-hr6082 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115