Sec. 7072. Incentivizing States to facilitate responsible, informed dispensing of controlled substances

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Section 392A of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 280b–1 ) is amended— by redesignating subsections

(c)and

(d)as subsections

(d)and (e), respectively; and by inserting after subsection

(b)the following new subsection: In determining the amounts of grants awarded to States under subsections

(a)and (b), the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may give preference to States in accordance with such criteria as the Director may specify and may choose to give preference to States that— maintain a prescription drug monitoring program; require dispensers of controlled substances in schedule II, III, or IV to verify the identity of the person who picks up a prescribed medication by requiring such person to present a photo identification card that is valid as determined by the respective State; and require dispensers of such controlled substances to enter certain information about the purchase of such controlled substances into the respective State’s prescription drug monitoring program, including— the National Drug Code or, in the case of compounded medications, compound identifier; the quantity dispensed; the name of the patient; the name of the ultimate user; the name of the person who picks up the controlled substance, if different from the patient and ultimate user; and the date filled. . Subsection

(d)of section 392A of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 280b–1 ), as redesignated by subsection (a)(1), is amended to read as follows: In this section: The term controlled substance has the meaning given that term in section 102 of the Controlled Substances. The term dispenser means a physician, pharmacist, or other person that dispenses a controlled substance to an ultimate user. The term Indian tribe has the meaning given that term in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. The term State means each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth or territory of the United States. The term ultimate user means a person who has obtained from a dispenser, and who possesses, a controlled substance for the person’s own use, for the use of a member of the person’s household, or for the use of an animal. .

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