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Introduced May 1, 2025 by Suzanne Bonamici · Last progress May 1, 2025
The bill strengthens school-based prevention, treatment, data, and federal coordination to reduce youth synthetic-opioid harms, but it creates new costs, administrative burdens, and privacy/implementation risks that may limit reach and unevenly affect small or under-resourced districts.
Students and school staff will face lower risk of synthetic-opioid overdose because the bill expands school-based prevention, treatment, recovery services, naloxone access, and clearer incident-response measures.
Teachers, school personnel, and families get expanded evidence-based training and professional development so staff and caregivers can better recognize and respond to opioid risks and overdoses.
High-need and underserved communities will receive prioritized grant funding and peer‑to‑peer recovery supports, directing resources toward rural, tribal, and other disproportionately affected areas.
Taxpayers, school districts, and LEAs will face increased costs because the bill authorizes new spending and requires purchases (e.g., naloxone, training) and program implementation that may divert funds from other priorities.
Schools, districts, and federal agencies will face added administrative and reporting burdens (grant applications, annual reports, new data collection) that disproportionately disadvantage small, rural, or resource-poor districts.
Students' privacy and rights could be at risk because expanded incident reporting, survey questions, and the potential for increased school surveillance might expose sensitive information or prompt punitive responses.
Based on analysis of 14 sections of legislative text.
Creates grants, task force, training and planning requirements, data collection changes, and survey updates to prevent and address synthetic opioid misuse among K–12 youth.
Creates a focused federal effort to prevent and respond to synthetic opioid (including fentanyl) misuse and overdoses among K–12 students by funding a competitive pilot grant program for school–health partnerships, requiring training and planning in K–12 education programs, expanding school-safety and youth survey data collection, and forming an interagency task force to develop a national prevention strategy. It also allows school-based health centers to obtain naloxone, mandates updates to national youth substance-use surveys starting in 2026, and directs an evaluation of overdose reporting systems.