S. 2658 · 115th Congress
Protecting Newborns from Opioids Act
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Bill Nelson
- Introduced
- 2018-04-12
- Latest action
- 2018-04-12 · Introduced in Senate
Summary
Protecting Newborns from Opioids Act
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to: (1) award grants to states to create or improve surveillance systems for neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) and analyze the data collected through the systems; and (2) conduct research on prevention, factors surrounding, and health outcomes of NAS. (NAS is a group of conditions caused when a baby withdraws from certain drugs the baby is exposed to in the womb before birth.)