HB6251: HERO Act Helping Educators Respond to Overdoses Act
- 1Introduced (current step)
- 2Passed One Chamber
- 3Passed Both Chambers
- 4Became Law
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Summary
To establish a grant program to provide schools with opioid overdose reversal drugs, to direct schools receiving Federal funds to report to certain Federal information systems any distribution of an opioid overdose reversal drug, and for other purposes.
Plain-language summary
The HERO Act would create a grant program to give schools money for opioid overdose reversal drugs, which are medicines that can save lives during an overdose emergency. Schools that receive federal education funding would be required to report to federal databases whenever they use these drugs. The bill was recently introduced in Congress and is currently being reviewed.
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HB6251: HERO Act Helping Educators Respond to Overdoses Act
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Sponsors
Adam Schiff
Primary SponsorCo-sponsors (9)
Raul Ruiz
Ann Kuster
Linda Sanchez
Jill Tokuda
David Trone