US Congress House Bill 4574 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 66-1)
Status: Introduced on May 6 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-07-21 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Strengthening Mental Health in Our Communities Act of 2014 - Establishes the White House Office of Mental Health Policy to monitor federal mental health activities and develop a National Strategy for Mental Health, a comprehensive plan to provide services to individuals with mental illness. Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize through FY 2019 various mental health grant programs, including programs for youth suicide prevention, homeless individuals, and diverting individuals with mental illness from the criminal justice system. Replaces youth interagency research, training, and technical assistance centers with a suicide prevention technical assistance center and authorizes the center through FY2019. Revises and extends through FY2019 grant programs to provide: (1) comprehensive community mental health services for children with serious emotional disturbances, and (2) for continued operation of the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative (NCTSI). Requires the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to create a national media public service campaign to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness. Directs SAMHSA to award grants to states to create a Web-based acute psychiatric bed registry to facilitate the placement and treatment of individuals in psychiatric crisis. Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require coverage of antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs. Eliminates Medicare's 190-day lifetime limit on inpatient psychiatric hospital services. Expands Medicare coverage to include marriage and family therapist services and mental health counselor services. Authorizes through FY2019 additional appropriations for National Health Service Corps scholarships and loan repayments to ensure an adequate supply of behavioral and mental health professionals. Native American Psychiatric and Mental Health Care Improvement Act - Directs the Secretary to award one grant to a medical school to recruit and train psychiatric physicians for Indian health programs. Makes participating physicians eligible for the Indian Health Service Loan Repayment Program. Adds occupational therapists to the National Health Service Corps to address shortages in health professional shortage areas. Requires the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health to conduct or support research on the causes, prevention, and treatment of serious mental illness and violence associated with mental illness. Allows the Director of the National Institutes of Health to establish a Youth Mental Health Research Network to conduct or support youth mental health research and intervention services. Revises and extends through FY2019 a program for children dealing with violence. Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend through FY2019 collaboration program grants and expand assistance to veterans and inmates with mental illness. Applies Medicaid, Medicare, and Medicare Advantage incentives for implementation of electronic health records to specified mental health professionals and facilities. Requires the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to provide individuals enlisting in the Armed Forces with a mental health assessment to be used as a baseline for subsequent assessments. Directs DOD to furnish needed care for mental illness to any veteran who served on active duty in a combat zone. Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish a pilot program for repaying student loans in exchange for service as a psychiatrist in the Veterans Health Administration.

Strengthening Mental Health in Our Communities Act of 2014

Rep. Ron Barber [D-AZ]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Julia Brownley [D-CA]	Rep. G. Butterfield [D-NC]
Rep. Lois Capps [D-CA]	Rep. Kathy Castor [D-FL]	Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]	Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]
Rep. Lacy Clay [D-MO]	Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]	Rep. Joseph Crowley [D-NY]	Rep. Diana DeGette [D-CO]
Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA]	Rep. Donna Edwards [D-MD]	Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]	Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY]
Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]	Rep. Elizabeth Esty [D-CT]	Rep. Chaka Fattah [D-PA]	Rep. Bill Foster [D-IL]
Rep. John Garamendi [D-CA]	Rep. Gene Green [D-TX]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Steve Israel [D-NY]
Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]	Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D-OH]	Rep. Robin Kelly [D-IL]	Rep. Sander Levin [D-MI]
Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]	Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA]	Rep. Nita Lowey [D-NY]
Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham [D-NM]	Sen. Ben Lujan [D-NM]	Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]	Rep. Carolyn McCarthy [D-NY]
Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Gregory Meeks [D-NY]	Rep. Grace Meng [D-NY]
Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]	Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]	Rep. Gloria Negrete McLeod [D-CA]
Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Frank Pallone [D-NJ]	Rep. Ed Pastor [D-AZ]	Rep. Ed Perlmutter [D-CO]
Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. David Price [D-NC]	Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]	Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]
Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. Kurt Schrader [D-OR]	Rep. Robert Scott [D-VA]	Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [I-AZ]	Rep. Albio Sires [D-NJ]	Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]	Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA]
Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Juan Vargas [D-CA]	Rep. Nydia Velazquez [D-NY]	Rep. Timothy Walz [D-MN]
Rep. Henry Waxman [D-CA]	Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]	Rep. John Yarmuth [D-KY]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-07-21	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
2014-06-20	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
2014-06-13	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
2014-05-16	House	Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
2014-05-09	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2014-05-06	House	Referred to House Natural Resources
2014-05-06	House	Referred to House Education and the Workforce
2014-05-06	House	Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
2014-05-06	House	Referred to House Armed Services
2014-05-06	House	Referred to House Judiciary
2014-05-06	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2014-05-06	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2014-05-06	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Judiciary, Armed Services, Veterans' Affairs, Education and the Workforce, and Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

HB401 (Related) 2013-02-28 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.
HB628 (Related) 2013-02-15 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
HB1037 (Related) 2013-03-08 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
HB1725 (Related) 2013-05-08 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
HB3662 (Related) 2013-12-06 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
HB4234 (Related) 2014-03-24 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
SB162 (Related) 2014-05-21 - Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S3195-3196)
SB195 (Related) 2014-12-09 - Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism. Hearings held.
SB1815 (Related) 2013-12-12 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/4574/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr4574/BILLS-113hr4574ih.pdf