3.0.0 4416 2023-01-11T13:45:21Z 2023-01-11T13:45:21Z Senate S 2020-08-04 116 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-08-04T17:53:42Z 2020-08-04 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2020-08-04 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001113 Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV] Catherine Cortez Masto D NV N Health Appropriations Cardiovascular and respiratory health Community life and organization Congressional oversight Emergency medical services and trauma care Foreign language and bilingual programs Health care coverage and access Health personnel Health programs administration and funding Health technology, devices, supplies Indian social and development programs Infectious and parasitic diseases Internet and video services Internet, web applications, social media Mental health Minority health Health 00 2020-08-04 Introduced in Senate 2020-12-10T21:43:36Z Virtual Peer Support Act of 2020

This bill appropriates funding for grants to transition behavioral health peer support services that are provided at no cost to participants from in-person to virtual platforms or to otherwise expand these kinds of virtual services.

Specifically, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration must award competitive grants to certain consumer-controlled or consumer-run organizations and tribal communities. Among other eligibility requirements for these grants, entities must have offered certain behavioral health services at no cost to participants before the declaration of the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency.

]]> Virtual Peer Support Act of 2020 Display Title Virtual Peer Support Act of 2020 Short Title(s) as Introduced Virtual Peer Support Act of 2020 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to provide funding for the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use to award grants for the purpose of supporting virtual peer behavioral health support services, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s4416is/xml/BILLS-116s4416is.xml 2020-08-04 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. 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.