Support the CHIERS Act to create a federal grant program funding transportation access for overdose prevention, substance use disorder treatment, detoxification, and related support services.

The CHIERS Act would: Create a grant program with funding that could be used to train staff, purchase vehicles, and contract with ridesharing services to cover transportation.

Bacon reintroduced and promoted the CHIERS Act, which would create grants to help eligible entities provide transportation to substance use disorder treatment and related services.

Bacon, Valadao, Bonamici, Lead Effort to Provide Greater Access to Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Services | U.S. Representative Don Bacon
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No official Congress.gov bill record or roll-call record matching the exact title "CHIERS Act" was located through web search, including the last lookback window beginning 2026-06-07.

The core named bill in the commitment could not be verified as introduced, enacted, or acted on in Congress; no recent evidence showed Bacon delivering the specific CHIERS Act transportation-access grant commitment.

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Congress.gov legislation search for "CHIERS Act"
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Congress.gov lists Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2] as an original cosponsor of H.R.1359 on 03/03/2023. The bill's overview says its latest action was referral to the House Subcommittee on Health on 03/10/2023 and that the bill status was Introduced.

Bacon took concrete related action on opioid-use-disorder treatment access, but this was a different bill and it did not create the CHIERS Act transportation-access grant program.

partial same_term A for effort

Cosponsors - H.R.1359 - 118th Congress: Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act
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Congress.gov's CRS summary says H.R.1359 would expand access to methadone for unsupervised use to treat opioid use disorder and permit telehealth to provide methadone treatment and related services if approved by the state and HHS.

The bill addressed substance-use-disorder treatment access, but not the promised federal grant program for transportation access to overdose prevention, treatment, detoxification, and related services.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R.1359 - Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act
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Congress.gov records H.R.6 as Public Law 115-271 and summarizes multiple substance-use-disorder provisions, including grants for overdose treatment best practices, comprehensive opioid recovery centers, recovery community organizations, and temporary housing for individuals in recovery.

Congress enacted broad opioid and substance-use-disorder grant programs during Bacon's House service, but the official summary does not show the specific CHIERS Act transportation-access grant commitment being enacted.

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H.R.6 - SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act
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