[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3473 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3473

   To amend section 520E of the Public Health Service Act to require 
    States and their designees receiving grants for development and 
 implementation of statewide suicide early intervention and prevention 
strategies to collaborate with each Federally recognized Indian tribe, 
    tribal organization, and urban Indian organization in the State.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 27, 2017

  Mr. Grijalva (for himself, Mr. Cole, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Mullin, Mrs. 
 Napolitano, Mrs. Torres, Mrs. Dingell, Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham of 
  New Mexico, Ms. Moore, Mr. Gallagher, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mrs. 
  Radewagen, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. O'Halleran, Mr. Jones, Mr. Issa, and 
  Mrs. Noem) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend section 520E of the Public Health Service Act to require 
    States and their designees receiving grants for development and 
 implementation of statewide suicide early intervention and prevention 
strategies to collaborate with each Federally recognized Indian tribe, 
    tribal organization, and urban Indian organization in the State.

    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 ``Native American Suicide Prevention 
Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. COLLABORATION WITH FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED INDIAN TRIBES, TRIBAL 
              ORGANIZATIONS, AND URBAN INDIAN ORGANIZATIONS IN 
              DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF STATEWIDE SUICIDE EARLY 
              INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION STRATEGIES.

    Subsection (e) of section 520E of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 290bb-36) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) Collaboration with federally recognized indian 
        tribes, tribal organizations, and urban indian organizations.--
        As a condition on the receipt of a grant or cooperative 
        agreement under this section for development and implementation 
        of a statewide early intervention and prevention strategy, a 
        State or an eligible entity designated by a State pursuant to 
        subsection (b)(1)(B) shall agree to collaborate with each 
        Federally recognized Indian tribe and tribal organization (as 
        defined in the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
        Assistance Act) and each urban Indian organization (as defined 
        in the Indian Health Care Improvement Act) in the State 
        regarding such development and implementation.''.
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