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H.R. 2062: Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act

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H.R. 2062: Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act

116th Congress · introduced 2019-04-03 · Health · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2019-04-03 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. 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

Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act

Plain summary

Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act This bill more closely aligns the federal privacy standards for substance use disorder (SUD) patient records with the 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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Official text

Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] · 72 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA), Scott H. Peters (D-CA), Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Seth Moulton (D-MA), John Joyce (R-PA), Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), Rick Larsen (D-WA), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL), Terri A. Sewell (D-AL), Tim Burchett (R-TN), Kevin Hern (R-OK), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Ami Bera (D-CA), Jason Crow (D-CO), Dusty Johnson (R-SD), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ), Pete Stauber (R-MN), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA), Lance Gooden (R-TX), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), James R. Baird (R-IN), David Schweikert (R-AZ), Jared F. Golden (D-ME), Tom Emmer (R-MN), Josh Harder (D-CA), Angie Craig (D-MN), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA) and 12 more.

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Record fed-us-cong116-hr2062 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116