3.0.0 4058 2023-05-16T14:15:20Z 2023-05-16T14:15:20Z Senate S 2022-04-07 117 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2022-04-07T19:07:03Z Compacts, Access, and Responsible Expansion for Mental Health Professionals Act 117 6076 HR 2021-11-24 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Identical bill CRS 2022-04-07 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2022-04-07 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000383 Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME] Angus King I ME S. N Health Health personnel Intergovernmental relations Licensing and registrations Mental health Health 00 2022-04-07 Introduced in Senate 2022-04-20T16:27:37Z Compacts, Access, and Responsible Expansion for Mental Health Professionals Act or the C.A.R.E. for Mental Health Professionals Act

This bill establishes a grant program to promote interstate licensure compacts for mental health professionals. These are licensure agreements enacted by two or more states to mutually recognize the licenses of counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, or pediatric mental health professionals.

The Health Resources and Services Administration must award grants to interstate compact commissions or professional licensing boards. Recipients may use grants for projects to (1) incentivize mental health professionals to practice in states with interstate licensure compacts, and (2) develop or maintain interstate compact commissions.

]]> C.A.R.E. for Mental Health Professionals Act Display Title C.A.R.E. for Mental Health Professionals Act Short Title(s) as Introduced C.A.R.E. for Mental Health Professionals Act Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Compacts, Access, and Responsible Expansion for Mental Health Professionals Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to establish a grant program to be known as the Mental Health Licensure Portability Program to award grants to eligible entities, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s4058is/xml/BILLS-117s4058is.xml 2022-04-07 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.