117th Congressional bills
On this page you will find a spreadsheet of the bills before Congress, both House and Senate, that pertain to government overreach into medicine, chronic pain, controlled drugs, and other topics of interest to the chronic pain community and the doctors who treat them.
Please join our Communication Campaign to teach the legislators the truth about drugs. Some of these bills will be helpful, but others are extremely harmful. Those legislators who refuse to learn the truth and pass bills that will actually help need to be fired. So work on getting the word to the legislators to either vote for or against the bills as specified.
As bills are introduced, we will enter them here. For more information on the bills, the general public will have to go to www.uscongress.gov. For members of DoctorsofCourage, you can see summaries of the bills, as well as the usual point and click communication features with the legislators to get to their emails, FaceBook, and Twitter pages on the membership site.
For any bill that DoctorsofCourage is opposed to, it is understood that the sponsors of those bills need to be fired. But until 2022, it is our responsibility to teach the truth to as many legislators that will listen.
| House Bills | |||||||
| Bill | Name | Sponsor | District | Date | Purpose | Cost/yr | DoC Position |
| HR 379 | Improving Social Deteminants of Health Act of 2021 | Nanette Barragan | CA 44 | 1/21/2021 | Study social factors on health | $50,000,000 | For |
| HR 706 | Emergency Support for Substance Use Disorders Act | Ann Kuster | NH 02 | 2/2/2021 | Grants for SUD during COVID | $50,000,000 | Against |
| HR 1026 | Warning on container | Greg Stanton | AZ 09 | 2/11/2021 | Require warning on containers about addiction | Against | |
| HR 1185 | Grants to inform risks of opioids | David Trone | MD 06 | 2/18/2021 | States get $$ for laws on providers warning about opioids | $10,000,000 | Against |
| HR 1384 | Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment Act of 2021 | Paul Tonko | NY 20 | 2/25/2021 | Any practitioner can prescribe opioids for addiction treatment | Against | |
| HR 1647 | TREATS Act | David McKinley | WV 01 | 3/8/2021 | Increase telehealth for SUD | ||
| HR 2067 | MATE Act | Lori Trahan | MA 03 | 3/18/2021 | Train physicians on treating OUD | Against | |
| HR 2364 | Public Campaign for synthetic opioids | Andy Kim | NJ 03 | 4/5/2021 | |||
| HR 2366 | Addiction by fentanyl and opioids | Ann Kuster | NH 02 | 4/5/2021 | |||
| HR 2379 | Amend CURES for opioid grants | David Trone | MD 06 | 4/8/2021 | |||
| HR 2448 | Chasing winnings from Perdue | David McKinley | WV 01 | 4/12/2021 | |||
| HR 2985 | Rural Area Opioid Prevention Pilot Program Act | Conor Lamb | PA 17 | 5/4/2021 | Provide rural pilot programs under Opioid Abuse Grant Program | ||
| HR 3105 | Common Sense Cannabis Reform for Vets… | David Joyce | OH 14 | 5/11/2021 | |||
| HR 3259 | NOPAIN Act | Terri Sewell | AL 07 | 5/14/2021 | Amend Title 18 to promote non-opioid treatmens in hospital outpatient | ||
| HR 4020 | Drug Policy Reform Act | Bonnie Watson Coleman | NJ 12 | 6/17/2021 | Legalize Drug Possession | ||
| HR 4051 | Opioid treatment programs eligible for grants | Brian Higgins | NY 26 | 6/22/2021 | |||
| HR 4098 | Non-opioid pain mgmt directive | David McKinley | WV 01 | 6/23/2021 | |||
| Senate Bills | |||||||
| Bill | Name | Sponsor | District | Date | Purpose | Cost/yr | DoC Position |
| S. 586 | NOPAIN Act | Shelley Capito | WV | 3/4/2021 | |||
| S. 1434 | Protecting Americans from Dangerour Opioids Act | Joe Manchin | WV | 4/28/2021 | |||
| S. 1457 | Addiction and OD’s from fentanyl & opioids | Ed Mrkey | MA | 4/29/2021 | |||
| S. 1575 | IMPROVE Addiction Care Act | Pat Toomey | PA | 5/12/2021 | Encourage appropriate prescribing Under Mdicaid for victims of opioid overdose | ||
| S. 2235 | Requires physicians to be trained in OUD ans SUD | Michael Bennet | CO | 6/24/2021 | |||
If you learn of any that need to be addressed, please let us know on the Contact Us page.