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114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4349 

To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an 

institution for mental diseases bed registry program. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 7, 2016 

Mr. TONKO introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on Energy and Commerce 

A BILL 

To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services 

to establish an institution for mental diseases bed registry program. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Coordinating Crisis 

5 Care Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. INSTITUTION FOR MENTAL DISEASES BED REG7 ISTRY GRANT PROGRAM. 

8 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 

9 Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the 

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1 tion, shall award grants to States to develop and admin2 ister, or maintain an existing, real-time Internet-based bed 

3 registry described in subsection (b) to collect, aggregate, 

4 and display information about beds in public and private 

5 inpatient psychiatric facilities and public and private crisis 

6 stabilization units and residential community mental 

7 health and residential substance abuse treatment facilities 

8 to facilitate the identification and designation of facilities 

9 for the temporary treatment of individuals in psychiatric 

10 or substance abuse crisis. 

11 (b) REGISTRY REQUIREMENTS.—A bed registry de12 scribed in this subsection is a registry that— 

13 (1) includes descriptive information for every 

14 public and private inpatient psychiatric facility and 

15 every public and private crisis stabilization unit and 

16 residential community mental health and residential 

17 substance abuse facility in the State involved, includ18 ing contact information for the facility or unit; 

19 (2) provides real-time information about the 

20 number of beds available at each facility or unit and, 

21 for each available bed, the type of patient that may 

22 be admitted, the level of security provided, and any 

23 other information that may be necessary to allow for 

24 the proper identification of appropriate facilities for 


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1 treatment of individuals in psychiatric or substance 

2 abuse crisis; and 

3 (3) allows employees and designees of commu4 nity mental health and substance abuse service pro5 viders, employees of inpatient psychiatric facilities or 

6 public and private crisis stabilization units and resi7 dential community mental health and residential 

8 substance abuse treatment facilities, and health care 

9 providers working in an emergency room of a hos10 pital or clinic or other facility rendering emergency 

11 medical care to perform searches of the registry to 

12 identify available beds that are appropriate for the 

13 treatment of individuals in psychiatric or substance 

14 abuse crisis. 

15 (c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 

16 authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 

17 $15,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2016 through 

18 2020. 

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