S. 3846 

One Hundred Seventeenth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE SECOND SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, 

the third day of January, two thousand and twenty two 

An Act 

To reauthorize the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program, and for 

other purposes. 

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 ‘‘Justice and Mental Health 

Collaboration Reauthorization Act of 2022’’. 

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF THE JUSTICE AND MENTAL HEALTH 

COLLABORATION PROGRAM. 

Section 2991(b)(5) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 

and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10651(b)(5)) is amended— 

(1) in subparagraph (I)— 

(A) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘teams and treatment 

accountability services for communities’’ and inserting 

‘‘teams, treatment accountability services for communities, 

and training for State and local prosecutors relating to 

diversion programming and implementation’’; 

(B) in clause (v)— 

(i) in subclause (III), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 

(ii) in subclause (IV), by striking the period at 

the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

(iii) by adding at the end the following: 

‘‘(V) coordinate, implement, and administer 

models to address mental health calls that include 

specially trained officers and mental health crisis 

workers responding to those calls together.’’; and 

(C) by adding at the end the following: 

‘‘(vi) SUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICES.—Funds may 

be used to develop, promote, and implement comprehensive suicide prevention programs and services 

for incarcerated individuals that include ongoing risk 

assessment. 

‘‘(vii) CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES.—Funds may 

be used for case management services for preliminary 

qualified offenders and individuals who are released 

from any penal or correctional institution to— 

‘‘(I) reduce recidivism; and 

‘‘(II) assist those individuals with reentry into 

the community. 

‘‘(viii) ENHANCING COMMUNITY CAPACITY AND LINKS

TO MENTAL HEALTH CARE.—Funds may be used to support, administer, or develop treatment capacity and 
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increase access to mental health care and substance 

use disorder services for preliminary qualified 

offenders and individuals who are released from any 

penal or correctional institution. 

‘‘(ix) IMPLEMENTING 988.—Funds may be used to 

support the efforts of State and local governments to 

implement and expand the integration of the 988 universal telephone number designated for the purpose 

of the national suicide prevention and mental health 

crisis hotline system under section 251(e)(4) of the 

Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 251(e)(4)), 

including by hiring staff to support the implementation 

and expansion.’’; and 

(2) by adding at the end the following: 

‘‘(K) TEAMS ADDRESSING MENTAL HEALTH CALLS.—With 

respect to a multidisciplinary team described in subparagraph (I)(v) that receives funds from a grant under this 

section, the multidisciplinary team— 

‘‘(i) shall, to the extent practicable, provide 

response capability 24 hours each day and 7 days 

each week to respond to crisis or mental health calls; 

and 

‘‘(ii) may place a part of the team in a 911 call 

center to facilitate the timely response to mental health 

crises.’’. 

SEC. 3. EXAMINATION AND REPORT ON PREVALENCE OF MENTALLY 

ILL OFFENDERS. 

Section 5(d) of the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime 

Reduction Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 2008 (Public 

Law 110–416; 122 Stat. 4355) is amended by striking ‘‘2009’’ and 

inserting ‘‘each of fiscal years 2023 through 2027’’. 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.