Bill > S983

This bill, known as the Overcoming Prevalent Inadequacies in Overdose Information Data Sets Act (OPIOIDS Act), aims to improve data and surveillance on opioid-related overdoses. The key provisions include: 1) Allowing the Attorney General to award grants to states, territories, and localities to support activities like enhancing post-mortem toxicology testing, data linkage across systems, and improving the comprehensiveness of data on fatal and non-fatal opioid overdoses; 2) Requiring the Attorney General to make grants to local law enforcement agencies and forensic laboratories to train officers to identify overdoses, upgrade systems for drug tracing and sample processing, and train on darknet investigation; 3) Mandating that grantees report overdose data to the National Forensic Laboratory Information System; 4) Directing the Drug Enforcement Administration to develop uniform reporting standards for the National Forensic Laboratory Information System and clarifying that this does not create new obligations or reporting requirements for state/local labs; and 5) Requiring the DEA to submit a specific budget line item for the Fentanyl Signature Profiling Program.