Bill Details
HR.1257 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-12 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced Date
2025-02-12
Policy Area
Crime and Law Enforcement
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This bill would let the Attorney General give grants to states, local governments, police agencies, and forensic labs to improve how opioid overdose deaths and drug-related cases are tracked and reported. The goal is to make overdose data more accurate, faster to collect, and easier to compare across places. It also supports training for first responders and law enforcement, better lab testing, and stronger coordination between agencies that handle overdose investigations and drug crime cases. In addition, the bill would require more consistent reporting standards for drug data and ask the DEA to spell out funding needs for a major fentanyl testing program.
- States, territories, and localities could get grants to improve overdose data systems, including toxicology testing, death reporting, and linking data across different databases.
- Local law enforcement agencies and forensic labs in areas with high overdose rates could receive grants for officer training, lab upgrades, better sample processing, darknet investigations, and support for medical examiners and coroners.
- Grantees would have to report overdose data to the National Forensic Laboratory Information System in order to use certain funds.
- The bill would direct the DEA to create uniform reporting standards for drug purity, form, and weight, and it would require a specific funding request for the Fentanyl Signature Profiling Program in the annual budget process.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1257 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1257
To permit the Attorney General to award grants for accurate data on
opioid-related overdoses, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 12, 2025
Ms. Lee of Florida (for herself and Mr. Pappas) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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A BILL
To permit the Attorney General to award grants for accurate data on
opioid-related overdoses, and for other purposes.
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 ``Overcoming Prevalent Inadequacies in
Overdose Information Data Sets Act'' or the ``OPIOIDS Act''.
SEC. 2. ACCURATE DATA ON OPIOID-RELATED OVERDOSES.
The Attorney General may award grants to States, territories, and
localities to support improved data and surveillance on opioid-related
overdoses, including for activities to improve postmortem toxicology
testing, data linkage across data systems throughout the United States,
training to equip officers to address overdoses and related criminal
activity, electronic death reporting, or the comprehensiveness of data
on fatal opioid-related overdoses.
SEC. 3. LAW ENFORCEMENT GRANTS.
(a) In General.--The Attorney General may make grants to local law
enforcement agencies and forensic laboratories in communities with high
rates of drug overdoses for the purpose of--
(1) training to help officers identify overdoses;
(2) upgrading essential systems for tracing drugs and
processing samples in forensic laboratories to provide timely,
accurate, and standard data reporting to the National Forensic
Laboratory Information System;
(3) training to better trace criminals through the darknet;
or
(4) providing training, staffing, and equipment in medical
examiners and coroners' offices to provide more timely and
comprehensive services in suspected overdose cases.
(b) Mandatory Reporting.--None of the funds made under subsection
(a) may be used by grantees that do not submit to the National Forensic
Laboratory Information System reports on overdose data.
(c) Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers.--Federal Law
Enforcement Training Centers shall provide training to State and local
law enforcement agencies on how to best coordinate with State and
Federal partners for tracking drug-related activity.
(d) COPS Grants.--Section 1701(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control and
Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10381) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (23), by striking ``and'' at the end;
(2) in paragraph (24), by striking the period at the end
and inserting ``; and''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(25) to provide training and resources for containment
devices to prevent secondary exposure to fentanyl and other
substances for first responders.''.
SEC. 4. OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY REFORM.
(a) In General.--The Drug Enforcement Administration shall develop
uniform reporting standards for inputting data into the National
Forensic Laboratory Information System for purity, formulation, and
weight to allow for better comparison across jurisdictions and between
agencies and the sharing of data.
(b) Clarification.--Nothing in subsection (a) may be construed to
require the creation of new or increased obligations or reporting
requirements on State or local laboratories.
SEC. 5. DEA TESTING.
The Drug Enforcement Administration shall submit to Congress, as
part of the annual budget process, a specific line item for the level
of funding necessary for the Fentanyl Signature Profiling Program.
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