SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

Bills and resolutions

Appropriations: reauthorize grants for building communities of recovery (see H.R. 2695), H1460 [7AP]

Center for Mental Health Services: develop and disseminate strategy to address effects of new technologies on children’s mental health (see H.R. 5074), H3717 [29AU]

Children and youth: authorize use of certain grants for health care providers to purchase lethal-means safety supplies for children at risk of suicide or overdose (see H.R. 6396), H5025 [3DE]

Dept. of HHS: authorize to award grants to train community mental wellness workers (see H.R. 5733), H4532 [10OC]

Drugs: allow States to use State Opioid Response grant program funds to purchase public access opioid overdose reversal kits (see H.R. 5252), H4236 [10SE]

Gambling: award formula grants to States to address gambling addiction (see S. 454), S792 [5FE] (see H.R. 1141), H584 [7FE]

Mental health: establish multi-stakeholder advisory committee to provide recommendations to address challenges to transmitting geolocation information with calls to 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (see S. 3199), S8238 [19NO]

Puerto Rico: include in National Survey on Drug Use and Health (see H.R. 6030), H4666 [12NO]

Women: reauthorize residential treatment program for pregnant and postpartum women (see S. 1004), S1704 [12MR]

Letters

Dept. of HHS proposal to eliminate Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and consolidate functions and programs under new Administration for a Healthy America: Mental Health Liaison Group, H2628 [11JN]

Remarks in House

Federal aid programs: improve awareness of, access to, and information on, funding opportunities relative to mental health and substance use disorder grant programs, H2455 [4JN]

Funding, H2628–H2633 [11JN], H5814 [12DE]

Gambling: award formula grants to States to address gambling addiction (H.R. 1141), H570 [7FE]

9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: funding for specialized support services targeting youth in LGBTQIA+ community, H1863 [6MY], H2066 [15MY], H3024 [27JN]

Texts of

S. 3199, 988 Lifeline Location Improvement Act, S8241 [19NO]