3.0.0 1452 2023-01-11T16:47:40Z 2023-01-11T16:47:40Z Senate S S 2007-05-22 110 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-05-22T22:51:19Z 2007-05-22 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6480-6483) IntroReferral 2007-05-22 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6479-6480) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2007-05-22 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001041 Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] HILLARY CLINTON D NY R N D000407 Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM] PETE DOMENICI R NM VICHI 2007-05-22 True Health Biological warfare Curricula Department of Health and Human Services Disaster relief Education Emergency Management Emergency medicine Executive reorganization Government Operations and Politics Health education Health information systems Health planning Higher education Interstate compacts Labor and Employment Medical education Medical personnel Medical research Mental health services Recruiting of employees Science, Technology, Communications Social Welfare Terrorism Volunteer workers Health 00 2007-05-22 Introduced in Senate 2007-08-22T22:18:41Z Public Mental Health Emergency Preparedness Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the National Center for Public Mental Health Emergency Preparedness to address mental health concerns and coordinate and implement the development and delivery of mental health services in the event of bioterrorism or other public health emergency.

Requires the Director of the Center to: (1) develop a mechanism to appoint a panel of experts for the Center; (2) convene a Training Curricula Working Group to review and approve mental health training curricula for emergency health professionals; (3) develop a mechanism through which individuals trained through approved curricula return to their communities to recruit and train others and provide expertise to state and local government agencies; (4) coordinate the use of existing emergency registries established to track medical and mental health volunteers for use by the Secretary, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Governor of each state to recruit and deploy trained emergency health professionals; (5) establish and maintain a central clearinghouse of educational materials, guidelines, information, strategies, resources, and research on public mental health emergency preparedness and service delivery; (6) convene a Clearinghouse Working Group; (7) organize an annual national forum to address public mental health emergency preparedness and service delivery; and (8) convene an Assessment Working Group to evaluate the effectiveness of the Center's efforts and those across the federal government in building the nation's public mental health emergency preparedness and service delivery capacity.

Requires the National Disaster Medical System and the Emergency Management Assistance Compact to ensure that licensed mental health professionals with expertise in treating vulnerable populations are available for deployment with Disaster Medical Assistance Teams and are included in the leadership of the National Disaster Medical System.

]]> Public Mental Health Emergency Preparedness Act of 2007 Display Title Public Mental Health Emergency Preparedness Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a national center for public mental health emergency preparedness, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Public Mental Health Emergency Preparedness Act of 2007 Introduced in Senate 2007-05-22T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s1452is/xml/BILLS-110s1452is.xml 2007-05-22 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6480-6483) text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.