To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a strategy implementing recommendations relating to the Protecting Our Infants Act of 2015, and for other purposes.

United States115th CongressHR-5702House of Representatives
Updated: May 11, 2018

Summary

Preventing NAS and Protecting Babies Act This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to develop a strategy for implementing recommendations from a departmental report on prenatal opioid exposure and neonatal abstinence syndrome (a syndrome in which newborns exhibit withdrawal symptoms because of substance use during pregnancy). The strategy must include timelines for implementation, resources for state health agencies, and recommendations for any needed statutory changes.

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  1. Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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  2. Introduced in House

  3. Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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