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Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Reduction Act of 2016
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Department of Justice (DOJ) to award grants to state, local, and tribal governments to provide opioid abuse services, including:
enhancing collaboration between criminal justice and substance abuse agencies;
(Sec. 3) DOJ's Office of Inspector General must conduct annual audits of selected grant recipients. The bill prohibits grants to nonprofit organizations that hold money in an offshore account to avoid tax liability.
(Sec. 4) The bill also authorizes DOJ to award grants to state, local, and tribal governments to establish or expand programs for veterans, including:
veterans treatment courts;
(Sec. 5) To offset the cost, the bill amends the Justice Assistance Act of 1984 to eliminate existing authority for DOJ to award grants under the Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Program through FY2021.
(Sec. 6) It expands specified grant purposes under the Family-Based Substance Abuse Treatment Program to include prison-based family treatment programs for pregnant women.
(Sec. 7) The Government Accountability Office must study and report to Congress on how DOJ grant programs address the prevention of, treatment for, and recovery from substance use and substance use disorders among adolescents and young adults.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 5046 as passed House amended on May 12, 2016. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
May 12, 2016Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveMay 12, 2016
House May 12, 2016 · the primary vote
Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Reduction Act of 2016
Passed
413 Yea 5 Nay 15 not voting
Crossed both parties 5 of 418 voting members broke with their own party: 5 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
433 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 5046 and vote against it. 8 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 5046 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
65 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.