Sponsor
Cory Mills
Representative · R-FL
Representative · R-FL
The bill aims to improve overdose surveillance and give clinicians (including veterinarians) better data to prevent misuse, but it imposes new reporting burdens on veterinary practices and raises privacy and civil‑liberties risks by expanding PDMP-held personal information and potential state surveillance.
Prescribing and dispensing practitioners (including veterinarians) will have more complete PDMP data to identify and prevent drug misuse, improving patient safety and clinical decision‑making.
Public health officials will receive nonfatal overdose reports within 72 hours, giving them timelier information to track trends and respond to overdose spikes.
Veterinary prescriptions will report owner/caretaker identifiers (rather than animal identifiers), preserving human-identifiable data for surveillance while avoiding use of animal patient details.
Veterinarians and their clinics will face increased administrative burden to consult PDMPs and submit 72‑hour reports, raising operating costs and staff time for animal-care practices.
Collecting owner/caretaker identifiers expands the personal data held in PDMPs, increasing privacy and breach risks for pet owners if data are misused or exposed.
A requirement that PDMPs 'shall' address misuse may push states to expand surveillance and data‑sharing capabilities, raising civil‑liberties concerns about broader monitoring and information flow.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires veterinarians to consult and report to state PDMPs like other practitioners and adds a 72-hour PDMP reporting duty for non-fatal overdoses requiring practitioner intervention.
Requires veterinarians to follow state prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) rules like other prescribers and dispensers: consult the PDMP when prescribing/dispensing controlled substances, report dispensing activity, and file a PDMP report within 72 hours after any non-fatal overdose event requiring practitioner intervention. States may choose not to require veterinary patient-level reporting about the animal but must report identifying information about the owner or caretaker instead. It also changes PDMP program language to make addressing drug misuse a required function and expresses a nonbinding sense of Congress that veterinarians should consult and report to PDMPs.
Official title: To increase compliance with PDMP requirements by veterinarians, and for other purposes.
Introduced May 21, 2026 by Cory Mills · Last progress May 21, 2026