[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10216 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                               H. R. 10216

    To amend title 49, United States Code, to require recipients of 
   assistance under chapter 53 of such title to display information 
regarding the suicide prevention hotline on public transportation owned 
                     or operated by the recipient.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 1, 2026

   Ms. Pettersen (for herself, Mr. Lawler, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. 
  Moulton, Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania, Ms. Stansbury, Ms. Scanlon, Ms. 
 Norton, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Ms. Tlaib, and 
  Ms. Ross) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 49, United States Code, to require recipients of 
   assistance under chapter 53 of such title to display information 
regarding the suicide prevention hotline on public transportation owned 
                     or operated by the recipient.

    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 ``Public Transit Mental Health 
Awareness Act''.

SEC. 2. PUBLIC DISPLAY OF SUICIDE PREVENTION HOTLINE.

    Section 5323 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(w) Public Display of Suicide Prevention Hotline.--
            ``(1) In general.--A recipient (including a subrecipient) 
        of assistance under this chapter shall display on public 
        transportation owned or operated by the recipient, in a 
        location visible to public transportation passengers, 
        information regarding the suicide prevention hotline maintained 
        pursuant to section 520E-3 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
        U.S.C. 290bb-36c), including that such hotline is free, 
        confidential, and available 24 hours a day.
            ``(2) Satisfaction of requirement.--A recipient (or 
        subrecipient) may satisfy the requirement under paragraph (1) 
        by displaying the information referred to in such paragraph--
                    ``(A) on all rolling stock vehicles of such 
                recipient; or
                    ``(B) in all transit facilities of such recipient.
            ``(3) Reasonable compliance.--If any public display of 
        information required under paragraph (1) is temporarily 
        damaged, removed, vandalized, or otherwise unavailable, the 
        recipient (or subrecipient) responsible shall not be considered 
        to be out of compliance with this subsection provided that the 
        recipient makes a reasonable effort to replace or restore such 
        display.
            ``(4) Revenue-generating advertising space.--The display of 
        information required under this subsection shall not interfere 
        with revenue-generating advertising space.
            ``(5) Effective date.--The requirement under paragraph (1) 
        shall take effect 1 year after the date of enactment of this 
        subsection.''.
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