[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7238 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7238

To direct that the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall revise 
     opioid treatment program admission criteria to eliminate the 
requirement that patients have been addicted for at least 1 year prior 
                    to being admitted for treatment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 28, 2022

Mr. Bucshon (for himself, Mrs. Axne, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, and Mr. Pappas) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
                        the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct that the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall revise 
     opioid treatment program admission criteria to eliminate the 
requirement that patients have been addicted for at least 1 year prior 
                    to being admitted for treatment.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Timely Treatment for Opioid Use 
Disorder Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. REVISE OPIOID TREATMENT PROGRAM ADMISSION CRITERIA TO ELIMINATE 
              REQUIREMENT THAT PATIENTS HAVE BEEN ADDICTED FOR AT LEAST 
              1 YEAR.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall revise section 
8.12(e)(1) of title 42, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor 
regulations), to eliminate the requirement that an opioid treatment 
program only admit an individual for treatment under the program if the 
individual has been addicted to opioids for at least 1 year before 
being so admitted for treatment.
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