[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4349 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4349

 To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an 
         institution for mental diseases bed registry program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 7, 2016

  Mr. Tonko introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an 
         institution for mental diseases bed registry program.

    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 ``Coordinating Crisis Care Act''.

SEC. 2. INSTITUTION FOR MENTAL DISEASES BED REGISTRY GRANT PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting 
through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health 
Services Administration, shall award grants to States to develop and 
administer, or maintain an existing, real-time Internet-based bed 
registry described in subsection (b) to collect, aggregate, and display 
information about beds in public and private inpatient psychiatric 
facilities and public and private crisis stabilization units and 
residential community mental health and residential substance abuse 
treatment facilities to facilitate the identification and designation 
of facilities for the temporary treatment of individuals in psychiatric 
or substance abuse crisis.
    (b) Registry Requirements.--A bed registry described in this 
subsection is a registry that--
            (1) includes descriptive information for every public and 
        private inpatient psychiatric facility and every public and 
        private crisis stabilization unit and residential community 
        mental health and residential substance abuse facility in the 
        State involved, including contact information for the facility 
        or unit;
            (2) provides real-time information about the number of beds 
        available at each facility or unit and, for each available bed, 
        the type of patient that may be admitted, the level of security 
        provided, and any other information that may be necessary to 
        allow for the proper identification of appropriate facilities 
        for treatment of individuals in psychiatric or substance abuse 
        crisis; and
            (3) allows employees and designees of community mental 
        health and substance abuse service providers, employees of 
        inpatient psychiatric facilities or public and private crisis 
        stabilization units and residential community mental health and 
        residential substance abuse treatment facilities, and health 
        care providers working in an emergency room of a hospital or 
        clinic or other facility rendering emergency medical care to 
        perform searches of the registry to identify available beds 
        that are appropriate for the treatment of individuals in 
        psychiatric or substance abuse crisis.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $15,000,000 for each of the 
fiscal years 2016 through 2020.
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