[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2035 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2035

   To provide funding to the National Institute of Mental Health to 
 support suicide prevention and brain research, including funding for 
   the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies 
                          (BRAIN) Initiative.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 24, 2014

  Mr. Begich introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide funding to the National Institute of Mental Health to 
 support suicide prevention and brain research, including funding for 
   the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies 
                          (BRAIN) Initiative.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Suicide Prevention Research 
INnovaTion Act'' or the ``SPRINT Act''.

SEC. 2. SUICIDE PREVENTION AND BRAIN RESEARCH.

    Subpart 16 of part C of title IV of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 285p et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 464U-1. FUNDING FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION AND BRAIN RESEARCH.

    ``(a) In General.--The National Institute of Mental Health shall 
use the funds made available to such institute under subsection (b) 
exclusively for the purpose of conducting and supporting--
            ``(1) research on the determinants of self-directed and 
        other violence in mental illness, including studies designed to 
        reduce the risk of self-harm, suicide, and interpersonal 
        violence, especially in rural communities with a shortage of 
        mental health services; and
            ``(2) brain research through the Brain Research Through 
        Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.
    ``(b) Authorization of Appropriations.--In addition to amounts 
otherwise made available to the National Institute of Mental Health, 
including amounts appropriated under section 402A(a), there are 
authorized to be appropriated to such institute $40,000,000 for each of 
fiscal years 2015 through 2019 to carry out this section.''.
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