SENATE BILL: Drug Addiction Treatment Services (Passed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

SENATE BILL

To mitigate the costs of drug addiction treatment services for community centers

Be it Enacted in Both Houses of Congress Assembed,

Section 1. Purpose

a) It is the purpose of this Act to provide emergency assistance to States, territories, Tribal nations, and local areas that are disproportionately affected by the opioid epidemic and to make financial assistance available to States, territories, Tribal nations, local areas, and other public or private nonprofit entities to provide for the operation of more effective and cost efficient systems for the delivery of essential services to individuals with substance use disorder, including with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, and their families.

Section 2. Eligibility

a) A state or locality must be evidenced by an increase in the number of cases per capita, the rate or number of overdose deaths, or the severity or need for services to treat various substance use disorders

b) A state or locality will be eligible for a grant under the above conditions

Section 3. Planning

a) To be eligible for grants for this purpose, the chief elected official of the local area must designate a substance use disorder treatment council that shall be -

i. Representative of the population in question
ii. Composed of health care provider members, community-based health organizations, local public health agencies

Section 4. Funding

a) Funding shall be appropriated and earmarked, then directed to local council for distribution to community health centers

b) The funding amount shall be determined based on the number of deaths in the localities that are eligible and the severity of need

Sponsor: Spark
Senate Designation: SB28:12

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Sponsor Feedback and initial Debate period has commenced. Sponsor has 24 hours to commence advocacy, all other members have 48 hours to respond.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Some concerns here.

1. There is a possibility of overlap or duplication with previous bills that needs to be reviewed.


2. The eligibility standard, does that imply that the minute a local has a decrease they lose the support offered here or am I reading that wrong?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

So I contacted Devout Centrist, and he responded back with some information but I don't feel comfortable reposting contents of a PM in this fashion, so I asked him to re post it in this thread.

Why is getting you guys to interact with each other so hard?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

really

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I mean, I am sure we have passed some other drug addiction treatment services bills in the past but I guess one more can't hurt

Though perhaps we could include an amendment to make sure that this doesn't overlap with any other similar services.

Devout listed some areas of overlap to correct in his PM, I will paraphrase them when I get home.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Basically Devout said that you need to eliminate references to opioid and make it more general because his previous law only dealt with the opioid situation and not overdoses in general or addiction in general.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

From a quick read I think the bill would be ok as it is. There is no funding attached nor is there a need to calculate anything (for the 2022 budget, I'd simply claim that there are no drug addicts in Atlasia and therefore funding for this bill would be 0$ ).

What is the point in that case?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

From a quick read I think the bill would be ok as it is. There is no funding attached nor is there a need to calculate anything (for the 2022 budget, I'd simply claim that there are no drug addicts in Atlasia and therefore funding for this bill would be 0$ ).

What is the point in that case?

I do not understand the question?

A program with no funding I mean.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

What does the Sponsor think of a fixed amount?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Tack would you be interested in pursuing an amendment on the fixed cost issue?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

any feedback from the sponsor on if the amendment is friendly?

I PMed Spark to move things along.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Senators have 24 hours to object.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The Amendment is adopted.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

So final vote?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I motion officially for a Final Vote, Senators have 24 hours to object.

Was going to start it but decided to give new members a chance to object upon review.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

A vote is now open on this legislation, Senators vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Aye

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Votes to pass, Senators have 24 hours to change votes.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Under the newly passed Senate rules I am rescinding the 24 hour call, since all Senators have voted and voted the same way.


Vote on Final Passage of the Drug Addiction Treatment Services Act:

Aye (6): Blair, Falterin, NC Yankee, Pericles, Sev and Spark
Nay (0):
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (0):

This bill has passed and sent to the VP for House action.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

SENATE BILL

To mitigate the costs of drug addiction treatment services for community centers

Be it Enacted in Both Houses of Congress Assembed,

Section 1. Purpose

a) It is the purpose of this Act to provide emergency assistance to States, territories, Tribal nations, and local areas that are disproportionately affected by the opioid epidemic and to make financial assistance available to States, territories, Tribal nations, local areas, and other public or private nonprofit entities to provide for the operation of more effective and cost efficient systems for the delivery of essential services to individuals with substance use disorder, including with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, and their families.

Section 2. Eligibility

a) A state or locality must be evidenced by an increase in the number of cases per capita, the rate or number of overdose deaths, or the severity or need for services to treat various substance use disorders

b) A state or locality will be eligible for a grant under the above conditions

Section 3. Planning

a) To be eligible for grants for this purpose, the chief elected official of the local area must designate a substance use disorder treatment council that shall be -

i. Representative of the population in question
ii. Composed of health care provider members, community-based health organizations, local public health agencies

Section 4. Funding

a) Funding shall be appropriated and earmarked, then directed to local council for distribution to community health centers

b) The funding amount shall be determined based on the number of deaths in the localities that are eligible and the severity of need

Section 5 (Naloxone)

1.) The drug Naloxone shall be available for free distribution to areas eligible under section 2. Additional training classes and materials shall be provided to areas receiving these supplies.

People's Regional Senate
Passed 6-0 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled,