Sponsor
Addison P. McDowell
Representative · R-NC
Representative · R-NC
The bill improves transparency, accountability, and timeliness of performance data for federal behavioral health grants but increases reporting burdens, raises confidentiality risks for providers, and may shift staff time away from direct services.
State governments and federal oversight bodies will receive standardized quarterly reports on how Cures Act behavioral health funds are spent, improving transparency and accountability of grant use.
Taxpayers and oversight entities can identify ultimate recipients and subrecipients (name, location, TIN), making it easier to track where federal grant dollars go and detect misuse.
People receiving services will be tracked with quarterly counts of individuals served, producing timelier performance data to assess program reach and effectiveness.
State agencies and local subrecipients must collect and submit additional quarterly data (including TINs), increasing administrative burden and compliance costs for governments and providers.
Hospitals, small providers, and other subrecipients may face heightened privacy and confidentiality risks from disclosing names, locations, and TINs of subrecipients.
More frequent reporting could divert program staff time toward data collection and away from direct service delivery, potentially slowing services for people served by these grants.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires HHS to collect quarterly standardized data on expenditures, recipients/subrecipients, amounts, and people served for certain opioid grants and expands statutory reporting requirements.
Official title: To amend the 21st Century Cures Act to improve the administration, oversight, and impact of opioid use disorder grants, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 10, 2025 by Addison P. McDowell · Last progress July 10, 2025
Requires the HHS Secretary to build and run a standardized system that collects quarterly data from States receiving certain opioid‑related grants under the 21st Century Cures Act. The data must include what grant funds were used for, names and identifiers of ultimate recipients and subrecipients, amounts, and numbers of people served; the bill also updates existing statutory reporting rules to require listing each entity that receives grant dollars and the funding level. The act directs HHS to avoid duplicating federal grant‑tracking by using other systems where feasible and makes the reporting and data‑collection changes effective 180 days after enactment.