Sec. 7144. Reauthorization of the poison control center grant program

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Section 1273 of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 300d–73 ) is amended to read as follows: The Secretary shall award grants to poison control centers accredited under subsection

(c)(or granted a waiver under subsection (d)) and nationally recognized professional organizations in the field of poison control for the purposes of— preventing, and providing treatment recommendations for, poisonings and toxic exposures including opioid and drug misuse; assisting with public health emergencies, responses, and preparedness; and complying with the operational requirements needed to sustain the accreditation of the center under subsection (c). In addition to the purposes described in subsection (a), a poison center or professional organization awarded a grant under such subsection may also use amounts received under such grant— to research, establish, implement, and evaluate best practices in the United States for poisoning prevention, poison control center outreach, opioid and drug misuse information and response, and public health emergency, response, and preparedness programs; to research, develop, implement, revise, and communicate standard patient management guidelines for commonly encountered toxic exposures; to improve national toxic exposure and opioid misuse surveillance by enhancing cooperative activities between poison control centers in the United States and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other governmental agencies; to research, improve, and enhance the communications and response capability and capacity of the Nation’s network of poison control centers to facilitate increased access to the centers through the integration and modernization of the current poison control centers communications and data system, including enhancing the network’s telephony, internet, data, and social networking technologies; to develop, support, and enhance technology and capabilities of nationally recognized professional organizations in the field of poison control to collect national poisoning, toxic occurrence, and related public health data; to develop initiatives to foster the enhanced public health utilization of national poison data collected by such organizations; to support and expand the toxicologic expertise within poison control centers; and to improve the capacity of poison control centers to answer high volumes of contacts and internet communications, and to sustain and enhance the poison control center’s network capability to respond during times of national crisis or other public health emergencies. Except as provided in subsection (d), the Secretary may award a grant to a poison control center under subsection

(a)only if— the center has been accredited by a nationally recognized professional organization in the field of poison control, and the Secretary has approved the organization as having in effect standards for accreditation that reasonably provide for the protection of the public health with respect to poisoning; or the center has been accredited by a State government, and the Secretary has approved the State government as having in effect standards for accreditation that reasonably provide for the protection of the public health with respect to poisoning. The Secretary may grant a waiver of the accreditation requirements of subsection

(c)with respect to a nonaccredited poison control center that applies for a grant under this section if such center can reasonably demonstrate that the center will obtain such an accreditation within a reasonable period of time as determined appropriate by the Secretary. The Secretary may renew a waiver under paragraph (1). The Secretary may not, after the date of enactment of the Poison Control Network Enhancement Act of 2018, grant to a poison control center waivers or renewals that total more than 5 years. Amounts made available to a poison control center under this section shall be used to supplement and not supplant other Federal, State, or local funds provided for such center. A poison control center, in utilizing the proceeds of a grant under this section, shall maintain the annual recurring expenditures of the center for its activities at a level that is not less than 80 percent of the average level of such recurring expenditures maintained by the center for the preceding 3 fiscal years for which a grant is received. There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, $28,600,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023. The Secretary may utilize an amount not to exceed 6 percent of the amount appropriated pursuant to the preceding sentence for each fiscal year for coordination, dissemination, technical assistance, program evaluation, data activities, and other program administration functions, which are determined by the Secretary to be appropriate for carrying out the program under this section. .

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