Congress orders a study of opioid addiction treatment across the nation.
H.R. 9676 — Examining Opioid Treatment Infrastructure Act of 2026 · Filed by Bill Foster (D-IL) · Introduced Jul 14, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill tells the Government Accountability Office to study treatment for opioid addiction. It will count inpatient beds and outpatient beds. It will find where they are located. It will check if treatment uses proven methods. The study will cover pregnant women, teens, and Native Americans. It will find out why agencies do not share overdose data.
Who it affects
The study helps Congress understand treatment capacity. It gives Congress facts to use when deciding on funding and rules. Citizens learn where treatment gaps exist.
One thing to notice
The bill does not change anyone's rights or access to treatment. It only orders a study to find gaps.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Jul 14, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 14, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Natural Resources and House Committee on Energy and Commerce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for…”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $710,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 24 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Bill Foster, who sponsored the bill, received $874,500 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Forest & Paper Association — $710,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- inpatient — A person who stays overnight in a hospital or treatment center.
- outpatient — A person who gets treatment but does not stay overnight.
- Government Accountability Office — An agency that studies how well government programs work.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,937 characters) on Jul 18, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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