Bill Details
S.500 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-10 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Introduced Date
2025-02-10
Policy Area
Labor and Employment
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This bill would extend and update two existing federal programs that help people recovering from substance use disorders. The programs support job training, employment services, recovery services, and recovery housing. It keeps these programs running through 2030, raises the amount of funding available, and updates the rules for choosing where grants go so they better reflect recent data on overdoses, unemployment, and workforce participation. The bill also gives grantees a limited ability to use some funds for transportation to work, training, or treatment-related services, and it strengthens reporting on job and earnings results.
- It renews the treatment, recovery, and workforce support grant program through fiscal year 2030 and increases annual funding from $5 million to $12 million starting in fiscal year 2026.
- It updates the way areas are selected for grants by using more recent data from 2018 through 2022 on overdose deaths, unemployment, and labor force participation.
- It allows grant recipients to use up to 5% of their funds for transportation to and from work, job training, vocational education, or services tied directly to treatment or recovery.
- It extends the recovery housing pilot program through 2030 and updates its selection criteria and related deadlines to match the new bill.
Official Summaries
Comprehensive Addiction Recovery through Effective Employment and Reentry Act of 2025 or the CAREER Act of 2025
This bill reauthorizes and expands programs to assist individuals in substance use disorder treatment and recovery to live independently and participate in the workforce.
Specifically, the bill reauthorizes through FY2030 the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAHMSA) Treatment, Recovery, and Workforce Support Grant Program, which provides employment training and recovery support services in coordination with state and local stakeholders. The bill further authorizes using 5% of such grant funds for transportation services and requires grantees to report on the employment and earnings outcomes of program participants.
The bill also reauthorizes through FY20230 the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Recovery Housing Pilot Program, which assists states in providing individuals in recovery from a substance use disorder with stable, temporary housing for up to two years.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 500 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 500
To reauthorize certain programs under the SUPPORT for Patients and
Communities Act, and for other purposes.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 10, 2025
Mr. McConnell (for himself, Mr. Hagerty, and Mr. Fetterman) introduced
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee
on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To reauthorize certain programs under the SUPPORT for Patients and
Communities Act, 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 ``Comprehensive Addiction Recovery
through Effective Employment and Reentry Act of 2025'' or the ``CAREER
Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF THE CAREER ACT; TREATMENT, RECOVERY, AND
WORKFORCE SUPPORT GRANTS.
(a) In General.--Section 7183 of the SUPPORT for Patients and
Communities Act (42 U.S.C. 290ee-8) is amended--
(1) in the section heading, by inserting ``; treatment,
recovery, and workforce support grants'' after ``career act'';
(2) in subsection (b), by inserting ``each'' before ``for a
period'';
(3) in subsection (c)--
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``the rates
described in paragraph (2)'' and inserting ``the
average rates for calendar years 2018 through 2022
described in paragraph (2)''; and
(B) by amending paragraph (2) to read as follows:
``(2) Rates.--The rates described in this paragraph are the
following:
``(A) The highest age-adjusted average rates of
drug overdose deaths for calendar years 2018 through
2022 based on data from the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, including, if necessary, provisional
data for calendar year 2022.
``(B) The highest average rates of unemployment for
calendar years 2018 through 2022 based on data provided
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
``(C) The lowest average labor force participation
rates for calendar years 2018 through 2022 based on
data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.'';
(4) in subsection (g)--
(A) in each of paragraphs (1) and (3), by
redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as clauses (i)
and (ii), respectively, and adjusting the margins
accordingly;
(B) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (3) as
subparagraphs (A) through (C), respectively, and
adjusting the margins accordingly;
(C) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) (as so
redesignated), by striking ``An entity'' and inserting
the following:
``(1) In general.--An entity''; and
(D) by adding at the end the following:
``(2) Transportation services.--An entity receiving a grant
under this section may use not more than 5 percent of the funds
for providing transportation for individuals to participate in
an activity supported by a grant under this section, which
transportation shall be to or from a place of work or a place
where the individual is receiving vocational education or job
training services or receiving services directly linked to
treatment of or recovery from a substance use disorder.
``(3) Limitation.--The Secretary may not require an entity
to, or give priority to an entity that plans to, use the funds
of a grant under this section for activities that are not
specified in this subsection.'';
(5) in subsection (i)(2), by inserting ``, which shall
include employment and earnings outcomes described in
subclauses (I) and (III) of section 116(b)(2)(A)(i) of the
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C.
3141(b)(2)(A)(i)) with respect to the participation of such
individuals with a substance use disorder in programs and
activities funded by the grant under this section'' after
``subsection (g)'';
(6) in subsection (j)--
(A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``for grants
awarded prior to the date of enactment of the
Comprehensive Addiction Recovery through Effective
Employment and Reentry Act of 2025'' after ``grant
period under this section''; and
(B) in paragraph (2)--
(i) in the matter preceding subparagraph
(A), by striking ``2 years after submitting the
preliminary report required under paragraph
(1)'' and inserting ``September 30, 2030''; and
(ii) in subparagraph (A), by striking
``(g)(3)'' and inserting ``(g)(1)(C)''; and
(7) in subsection (k), by striking ``$5,000,000 for each of
fiscal years 2019 through 2023'' and inserting ``$12,000,000
for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030''.
(b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section 1(b) of
the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (Public Law 115-271; 132
Stat. 3894) is amended by striking the item relating to section 7183
and inserting the following:
``Sec. 7183. CAREER Act; treatment, recovery, and workforce support
grants.''.
SEC. 3. REAUTHORIZATION OF THE CAREER ACT; RECOVERY HOUSING PILOT
PROGRAM.
(a) In General.--Section 8071 of the SUPPORT for Patients and
Communities Act (42 U.S.C. 5301 note; Public Law 115-271) is amended--
(1) by striking the section heading and inserting ``career
act; recovery housing pilot program'';
(2) in subsection (a), by striking ``through 2023'' and
inserting ``through 2030'';
(3) in subsection (b)--
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``not later than
60 days after the date of enactment of this Act'' and
inserting ``not later than 60 days after the date of
enactment of the Comprehensive Addiction Recovery
through Effective Employment and Reentry Act of 2025'';
and
(B) in paragraph (2)(B)(i)--
(i) in subclause (I)--
(I) by striking ``for calendar
years 2013 through 2017''; and
(II) by inserting ``for calendar
years 2018 through 2022'' after ``rates
of unemployment'';
(ii) in subclause (II)--
(I) by striking ``for calendar
years 2013 through 2017''; and
(II) by inserting ``for calendar
years 2018 through 2022'' after
``participation rates''; and
(iii) by striking subclause (III) and
inserting the following:
``(III) The highest age-adjusted
average rates of drug overdose deaths
for calendar years 2018 through 2022
based on data from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention,
including, if necessary, provisional
data for calendar year 2022.''; and
(4) in subsection (f), by striking ``For the 2-year period
following the date of enactment of this Act, the'' and
inserting ``The''.
(b) Conforming Amendment.--Subtitle F of title VIII of the SUPPORT
for Patients and Communities Act (Public Law 115-271; 132 Stat. 4095)
is amended by striking the subtitle heading and inserting the
following:
``Subtitle F--CAREER Act; Recovery Housing Pilot Program''.
(c) Clerical Amendments.--The table of contents in section 1(b) of
the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (Public Law 115-271; 132
Stat. 3894) is amended--
(1) by striking the item relating to subtitle F of title
VIII and inserting the following:
``Subtitle F--CAREER Act; Recovery Housing Pilot Program'';
and
(2) by striking the item relating to section 8071 and
inserting the following:
``Sec. 8071. CAREER Act; Recovery Housing Pilot Program.''.
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