Office of National Drug Control Policy reform

(a) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy shall be a Cabinet-level position; and (2) nothing in this section shall affect the reporting structure of agencies with drug enforcement responsibilities. (b) Requirements The Office of National Drug Control Policy shall— (1) document strategies for ensuring prevention of duplicating services and grant funding within National Drug Control Program agencies; (2) collaborate with the National Center for Health Statistics and the National Forensic Laboratory Information System, including by working with the Department of Justice to create national standards for the submission of data to ensure uniformity across the United States, including data from cases in which the defendant pleads guilty; and (3) issue guidance that States and localities should record overdose deaths as homicides if there is sufficient evidence that the overdose was not self-induced and intentional. (c) Interagency coordinating council The Office of National Drug Control Policy, the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services, and other National Drug Control Program agencies shall coordinate to limit duplication and ensure uniform reporting standards and improve relationships between the agencies. (d) Congressional Review Act If the Office of National Drug Control Policy does not certify that a final rule made by a National Drug Control Program participant is consistent with the National Drug Control Policy, the rule shall be deemed to be submitted under section 801(a)(1) of title 5, United States Code. (e) Reprogramming and transfer requests Section 704(c)(4)(A) of the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998 (21 U.S.C. 1703(c)(4)(A)) is amended by striking deemed approved and inserting deemed denied.