US Congress Senate Bill 1642 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Introduced on May 23 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-05-23 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Directs the Department of Education (ED) to award grants to partnerships between educational agencies and graduate institutions to increase the number of school-based mental-health services providers employed by low-income local educational agencies (LEAs). Grant funds may be used for specified purposes, including to provide student-loan forgiveness and tuition credits and to support recruitment, hiring, and training. In addition, ED shall establish a program to provide student-loan forgiveness for individuals who (1) are not, and have never been, participants in the grant program established by the bill; and (2) have been employed by low-income LEAs for five or more consecutive school years as mental-health services providers.

Increasing Access to Mental Health in Schools Act

Sen. Jon Tester [D-MT]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]
Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-05-23	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

HB2958 (Same As) 2019-05-23 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1642/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s1642/BILLS-116s1642is.pdf