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To provide additional guidance to grantees seeking funding to treat or prevent mental health or substance use disorders. (06/12/2018 legislative day)

TEACH to Combat Addiction Act of 2018 (06/12/2018 legislative day)

SCREEN Act (06/12/2018 legislative day)

Preventing Overdoses While in Emergency Rooms Act of 2018 (06/12/2018 legislative day)

Substance Use Disorder Workforce Loan Repayment Act of 2018 (06/12/2018 legislative day)

Safe Disposal of Unused Medication Act (06/12/2018 legislative day)

Jessie's Law (06/12/2018 legislative day)

Medicaid IMD ADDITIONAL INFO Act (06/12/2018 legislative day)

ACE Research Act (06/12/2018 legislative day)

To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to identify or facilitate the development of best practices for operating recovery housing, and for other purposes. (06/12/2018 legislative day)

To establish a substance use disorder information dashboard within the Department of Health and Human Services, and for other purposes. (06/12/2018 legislative day)

To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to promote testing of incentive payments for behavioral health providers for adoption and use of certified electronic health record technology. (06/12/2018 legislative day)

Better Pain Management Through Better Data Act of 2018 (06/12/2018 legislative day)

To require the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service to submit to Congress a report on the health effects of new psychoactive substances (including synthetic drugs) use. (06/12/2018 legislative day)

DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5483.

Considered under suspension of the rules.

Mr. Walden moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended. H.R. 5483 — "To impose a deadline for the promulgation of interim final regulations in accordance with section 311(h) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 831(h)) specifying the circumstances in which a special registration may be issued to a practitioner to engage in the practice of telemedicine, and for other purposes."

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.