I'm Just a Bill: Opioid Settlement Funds Protection Act
👀 I’m Just a Bill — Opioid Settlement Funds Protection A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster What is this bill? Federal protection legislation in the 119th Congress for the ~$50B in opioid-settlement funds flowing to state and local governments. Addresses the documented diversion of opioid-settlement funds to general-revenue purposes rather than substance-use-disorder treatment and recovery. What does it actually do? Federal accountability framework for state opioid-settlement spending Treatment-and-recovery-services minimum allocation requirements Transparency reporting requirements for state opioid funds Federal grant matching for jurisdictions exceeding minimum allocation thresholds Indigenous-community-impact provisions How does this affect cooperative-class families? Composes with #5 The Family Table (recovery and care intersection), #7 MSA (Substitution-routing for participating recovery providers), and #8 Defense Klaus (overlap with survivor-class infrastructure when SUD intersects domestic violence). Composes with Rural Mental Health Access Act Bounty Poster. ...