Official Summaries

Medication Access and Training Expansion Improvement Act or the MATE Improvement Act

This bill expands the types of organizations that may provide required training for practitioners registering with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to dispense (i.e., prescribe or administer) certain controlled substances.

Current law requires health care practitioners to register with the DEA and complete a one-time training on substance use disorders from specified entities in order to dispense schedule II-V controlled substances. Practitioners who graduated within the last five years from specified types of schools and whose curriculum included similar training on substance use disorders are exempt from having to receive this additional training.

The bill adds several organizations (e.g., the American Academy of Family Physicians) to the list of entities that may provide the required one-time training for physicians or other practitioners. It also expands the types of practitioners who are exempt from this training requirement to include those who graduated from schools of podiatric medicine or schools of pharmacy within the last five years and received similar training as part of their curriculums.

The bill applies retroactively, taking effect as if enacted on December 29, 2022.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 946 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

<DOC>






119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 946

    To clarify training requirements for prescribers of controlled 
                              substances.


_______________________________________________________________________


                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 11 (legislative day, March 10), 2025

Mr. Bennet (for himself and Ms. Collins) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
    To clarify training requirements for prescribers of controlled 
                              substances.

    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 ``Medication Access and Training 
Expansion Improvement Act'' or the ``MATE Improvement Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRED TRAINING FOR PRESCRIBERS OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

    (a) In General.--Section 303 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 
U.S.C. 823) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating the second subsection designated as 
        subsection (l) as subsection (m); and
            (2) in subsection (m)(1), as so redesignated--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A)--
                            (i) in clause (iv)--
                                    (I) in subclause (I)--
                                            (aa) by inserting ``the 
                                        American Academy of Family 
                                        Physicians, the American 
                                        Podiatric Medical Association, 
                                        the Academy of General 
                                        Dentistry, the American 
                                        Optometric Association,'' 
                                        before ``or any other 
                                        organization'';
                                            (bb) by striking ``or the 
                                        Commission'' and inserting ``, 
                                        the Commission''; and
                                            (cc) by inserting ``, or 
                                        the Council on Podiatric 
                                        Medical Education'' before the 
                                        semicolon at the end; and
                                    (II) in subclause (III), by 
                                inserting ``or the American Academy of 
                                Family Physicians'' after 
                                ``Association''; and
                            (ii) in clause (v), in the matter preceding 
                        subclause (I)--
                                    (I) by striking ``osteopathic 
                                medicine, dental surgery'' and 
                                inserting ``osteopathic medicine, 
                                podiatric medicine, dental surgery''; 
                                and
                                    (II) by striking ``or dental 
                                medicine curriculum'' and inserting 
                                ``or dental or podiatric medicine 
                                curriculum''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B)--
                            (i) in clause (i)--
                                    (I) by inserting ``the American 
                                Pharmacists Association, the 
                                Accreditation Council on Pharmacy 
                                Education, the American Psychiatric 
                                Nurses Association, the American 
                                Academy of Nursing, the American 
                                Academy of Family Physicians,'' before 
                                ``or any other organization''; and
                                    (II) by inserting ``, the American 
                                Academy of Family Physicians,'' before 
                                ``or the Accreditation Council''; and
                            (ii) in clause (ii)--
                                    (I) by striking ``or accredited 
                                school'' and inserting ``, an 
                                accredited school''; and
                                    (II) by inserting ``, or an 
                                accredited school of pharmacy'' before 
                                ``in the United States''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect as if enacted on December 29, 2022.
                                 <all>