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Overcoming Prevalent Inadequacies in Overdose Information Data Sets Act or the OPIOIDS Act
This bill establishes and revises certain grants and resources to address opioid-related overdoses.
Specifically, the bill authorizes the Department of Justice (DOJ) to award grants to states, territories, and localities to improve data and surveillance related to opioid overdoses.
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Additionally, the bill authorizes DOJ to award grants to law enforcement agencies and forensic laboratories in communities with high rates of drug overdoses to (1) provide training to help officers better identify overdoses; (2) upgrade essential systems for drug tracing and processing samples in forensic laboratories; (3) provide training to better trace criminals through the dark web; or (4) provide training, staffing, and equipment in medical examiners and coroners’ offices to provide more timely and comprehensive services in suspected overdose cases.
The bill requires the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers to provide training to state and local law enforcement agencies on how to best coordinate with state and federal partners for tracking drug-related activity.
The bill allows funds under the Community Oriented Policing Services grant program to be used to provide training and resources for equipment that protects first responders from secondary fentanyl exposure.
Finally, the bill directs the Drug Enforcement Administration to (1) develop uniform reporting standards for information concerning drug control activities, and (2) budget for a program that analyzes fentanyl samples.
People & committees
Rep. Lee, Laurel M. [R-FL-15] · R–FL
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Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-02-12 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
The proposed OPIOIDS Act would let the Attorney General award grants to improve opioid overdose records and support police and forensic laboratories in communities with high overdose rates. Grants could support drug testing after death, connected data systems, officer training, and medical examiner services. It would also require federal training and uniform drug laboratory reporting standards, while specifying that those standards would not require new or increased reporting duties for state or local laboratories.
The Attorney General may award grants to States, territories, and localities to support improved data and surveillance on opioid-related overdoses
The Attorney General may make grants to local law enforcement agencies and forensic laboratories in communities with high rates of drug overdoses
including for activities to improve postmortem toxicology testing, data linkage across data systems throughout the United States, training to equip officers to address overdoses and related criminal activity
providing training, staffing, and equipment in medical examiners and coroners’ offices to provide more timely and comprehensive services in suspected overdose cases.
Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers shall provide training to State and local law enforcement agencies
The Drug Enforcement Administration shall develop uniform reporting standards for inputting data into the National Forensic Laboratory Information System
Nothing in subsection (a) may be construed to require the creation of new or increased obligations or reporting requirements on State or local laboratories.
Section 1 names the proposal the Overcoming Prevalent Inadequacies in Overdose Information Data Sets Act, or OPIOIDS Act.
This Act may be cited as the Overcoming Prevalent Inadequacies in Overdose Information Data Sets Act or the OPIOIDS Act.
Section 2 would authorize, but not require, the Attorney General to award grants to states, territories, and localities for better opioid overdose data and monitoring. Eligible activities would include testing for drugs after death, linking data systems, training officers to address overdoses and related crime, electronic death reporting, and making fatal overdose records more complete.
The Attorney General may award grants to States, territories, and localities to support improved data and surveillance on opioid-related overdoses, including for activities to improve postmortem toxicology testing, data linkage across data systems throughout the United States, training to equip officers to address overdoses and related criminal activity, electronic death reporting, or the comprehensiveness of data on fatal opioid-related overdoses.
Section 3 would authorize grants to local law enforcement agencies and forensic laboratories in communities with high drug overdose rates. Grants could fund officer training to identify overdoses and laboratory system upgrades for tracing drugs, processing samples, and reporting timely, accurate, standardized data to the National Forensic Laboratory Information System.
The Attorney General may make grants to local law enforcement agencies and forensic laboratories in communities with high rates of drug overdoses for the purpose of— (1) training to help officers identify overdoses; (2) upgrading essential systems for tracing drugs and processing samples in forensic laboratories to provide timely, accurate, and standard data reporting to the National Forensic Laboratory Information System;
These grants could also fund training to trace criminals through the darknet, and training, staff, and equipment for medical examiners and coroners handling suspected overdose cases.
(3) training to better trace criminals through the darknet; or (4) providing training, staffing, and equipment in medical examiners and coroners’ offices to provide more timely and comprehensive services in suspected overdose cases.
Recipients could not use Section 3(a) grant funds unless they submit overdose data reports to the National Forensic Laboratory Information System.
None of the funds made under subsection (a) may be used by grantees that do not submit to the National Forensic Laboratory Information System reports on overdose data.
Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers would have to train state and local law enforcement agencies on coordinating with state and federal partners to track drug-related activity.
Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers shall provide training to State and local law enforcement agencies on how to best coordinate with State and Federal partners for tracking drug-related activity.
Section 3(d) would add a purpose to an existing law's grant provisions: providing training and resources for containment devices intended to prevent first responders' secondary exposure to fentanyl and other substances. The supplied amendment does not reproduce the existing grant framework.
COPS grants Section 1701(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10381) is amended
by adding at the end the following: (25) to provide training and resources for containment devices to prevent secondary exposure to fentanyl and other substances for first responders.
Section 4 would require the Drug Enforcement Administration to develop uniform standards for entering drug purity, formulation, and weight into the National Forensic Laboratory Information System. The stated purpose is easier comparison and sharing of data across jurisdictions and agencies. This requirement could not be interpreted to require new or increased obligations or reporting requirements for state or local laboratories.
The Drug Enforcement Administration shall develop uniform reporting standards for inputting data into the National Forensic Laboratory Information System for purity, formulation, and weight to allow for better comparison across jurisdictions and between agencies and the sharing of data.
Nothing in subsection (a) may be construed to require the creation of new or increased obligations or reporting requirements on State or local laboratories.
Section 5 would require the Drug Enforcement Administration to submit a separate budget entry to Congress identifying the funding needed for the Fentanyl Signature Profiling Program as part of the annual budget process. This is a budget submission requirement, rather than an appropriation of money.
The Drug Enforcement Administration shall submit to Congress, as part of the annual budget process, a specific line item for the level of funding necessary for the Fentanyl Signature Profiling Program.
The supplied official-actions snapshot, updated October 1, 2026, records introduction in the House and referral to the House Committee on the Judiciary on February 12, 2025. It supplies no later action, so it does not establish whether the proposal subsequently advanced or became law.
Source snapshot updated 2026-10-01T16:09:45Z. 2025-02-12: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. 2025-02-12: Introduced in House 2025-02-12: Introduced in House
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