Bill > S2772

Introduced Session

A bill to eliminate the requirement that veterans pay a copayment to the Department of Veterans Affairs to receive opioid antagonists or education on the use of opioid antagonists. This bill exempts from the requirement that veterans pay a Department of Veterans Affairs copayment for: any opioid antagonists furnished to a veteran at high risk for overdose of a specific medication or substance in order to reverse the effect of such an overdose, and education on their use.

Committee Categories

Tammy Baldwin (D)*,  Patrick Leahy (D),  Bob Menendez (D),  Jerry Moran (R),  Sheldon Whitehouse (D), 

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (on 04/11/2016)

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