First responders and public health agencies would get new federal grant money to build real-time tracking systems for opioid overdoses under this bill, which expands the Justice Department's Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Grant Program. States, local governments, coalitions of law enforcement agencies, and tribes could use the funding to build mobile apps and data tools that track where fatal and nonfatal overdoses happen and where paramedics, police, and firefighters administer overdose-reversal medication like Narcan. Recipients would be required to make their data compatible with existing federal, state, and local overdose-tracking systems and to share the information across agencies to help identify overdose hotspots faster. Before spending the grant money, recipients must first audit the data tools they already have to avoid duplicating existing efforts.
Congressional Summary
Opioid Overdose Data Collection Enhancement ActThis bill allows grants under the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program to be used to implement overdose data collection programs. An overdose data collection program tracks the locations of suspected overdoses and the administration of opioid overdose reversal medication by first responders.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Senate
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in Senate
- Action Date
- 2025-03-24
- Date Added
- 2026-07-11
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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