I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1854 
To increase public safety by facilitating collaboration among the criminal 
justice, juvenile justice, veterans treatment services, mental health treat-
ment, and substance abuse systems. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 16, 2015 
Mr. COLLINS of Georgia (for himself, Mr. NUGENT, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, 
Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. LANCE, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mrs. BROOKS of 
Indiana, Ms. LOFGREN, Ms. JENKINS of Kansas, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. 
SESSIONS, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mr. UPTON, Mr. HONDA, Mr. LOEBSACK, 
and Mr. ASHFORD) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To increase public safety by facilitating collaboration among 
the criminal justice, juvenile justice, veterans treatment 
services, mental health treatment, and substance abuse 
systems. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Comprehensive Justice 
and Mental Health Act of 2015’’. 
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SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
The table of contents for this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title. 
Sec. 2. Table of contents. 
Sec. 3. Findings. 
Sec. 4. Sequential intercept model. 
Sec. 5. Veterans treatment courts. 
Sec. 6. Prison and jails. 
Sec. 7. Allowable uses. 
Sec. 8. Law enforcement training. 
Sec. 9. Federal law enforcement training. 
Sec. 10. GAO report. 
Sec. 11. Evidence based practices. 
Sec. 12. Transparency, program accountability, and enhancement of local au-
thority. 
Sec. 13. Grant accountability. 
Sec. 14. Reauthorization of appropriations. 
SEC. 3. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) An estimated 2,000,000 individuals with se-
rious mental illnesses are booked into jails each 
year, resulting in prevalence rates of serious mental 
illness in jails that are 3 to 6 times higher than in 
the general population. An even greater number of 
individuals who are detained in jails each year have 
mental health problems that do not rise to the level 
of a serious mental illness but may still require a re-
source-intensive response. 
(2) Adults with mental illnesses cycle through 
jails more often than individuals without mental ill-
nesses, and tend to stay longer (including before 
trial, during trial, and after sentencing). 
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(3) According to estimates, almost 3⁄4 of jail de-
tainees with serious mental illnesses have co-occur-
ring substance use disorders, and individuals with 
mental illnesses are also much more likely to have 
serious physical health needs. 
(4) Among individuals under probation super-
vision, individuals with mental disorders are nearly 
twice as likely as other individuals to have their 
community sentence revoked, furthering their in-
volvement in the criminal justice system. Reasons 
for revocation may be directly or indirectly related to 
an individual’s mental disorder. 
SEC. 4. SEQUENTIAL INTERCEPT MODEL. 
(a) REDESIGNATION.—Section 2991 of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 
3797aa) is amended by redesignating subsection (i) as 
subsection (n). 
(b) SEQUENTIAL INTERCEPT MODEL.—Section 2991 
of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797aa) is amended by inserting after 
subsection (h) the following: 
‘‘(i) SEQUENTIAL INTERCEPT GRANTS.— 
‘‘(1) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 
‘eligible entity’ means a State, unit of local govern-
ment, Indian tribe, or tribal organization. 
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‘‘(2) AUTHORIZATION.—The Attorney General 
may make grants under this subsection to an eligible 
entity for sequential intercept mapping and imple-
mentation in accordance with paragraph (3). 
‘‘(3) SEQUENTIAL INTERCEPT MAPPING; IMPLE-
MENTATION.—An eligible entity that receives a 
grant under this subsection may use funds for— 
‘‘(A) 
sequential 
intercept 
mapping, 
which— 
‘‘(i) shall consist of— 
‘‘(I) convening mental health and 
criminal justice stakeholders to— 
‘‘(aa) develop a shared un-
derstanding of the flow of justice- 
involved individuals with mental 
illnesses through the criminal 
justice system; and 
‘‘(bb) identify opportunities 
for improved collaborative re-
sponses to the risks and needs of 
individuals 
described 
in 
item 
(aa); and 
‘‘(II) developing strategies to ad-
dress gaps in services and bring inno-
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