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H.R. 2355: Opioid Prescription Verification Act of 2021

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H.R. 2355: Opioid Prescription Verification Act of 2021

117th Congress · introduced 2021-04-05 · 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 2021-04-05 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: 1 recorded vote in our records. Latest: House roll call 422 (2021): On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended, HR2355 (2021-12-08), Passed. See all
  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.

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Official title

Opioid Prescription Verification Act of 2021

Plain summary

Opioid Prescription Verification Act of 2021 This bill modifies overdose prevention activities carried out by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Specifically, HHS must update pharmacist training materials to include information about how to verify the identity of patients who are prescribed medications. In addition, the CDC may give preference, in awarding grants for overdose prevention, to states that maintain a prescription drug monitoring program that mandates the collection of specified information, require prescribers of certain potentially addictive medications to issue prescriptions electronically (subject to some exceptions), and require dispensers of certain potentially addictive medications to enter particular information about the purchase of such medications into their state's prescription drug monitoring program.

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Official text

Opioid Prescription Verification Act of 2021

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13] · 8 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 2355, Opioid Prescription Verification Act of 2021 (2021-09-22)

Cosponsors on this site

Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL), Ann Wagner (R-MO), Michael R. Turner (R-OH), Scott Franklin (R-FL), Ted Budd (R-NC)

Recorded votes

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong117-hr2355 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117