nancial counseling provided, a specific statement of 
the portion of such funds used to evaluate bian-
nually the appropriateness of such counseling pro-
vided for such individuals following such release, and 
a description of the type of the evaluations made. 
The report shall also include recommendations for 
the further improvement of such counseling and 
such biannual evaluations.’’. 
(b) STATE PLAN AND REPORTS BY STATES RECEIV-
ING BLOCK GRANTS FOR COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH 
SERVICES AND FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF 
SUBSTANCE ABUSE.— 
(1) INCLUSION OF HOUSING COUNSELING AND 
FINANCIAL COUNSELING IN STATE PLAN FOR COM-
PREHENSIVE
COMMUNITY-BASED
MENTAL
HEALTH 
SYSTEMS.—The 
second 
sentence 
of 
section 
1912(b)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 300x–2(b)(1)) is amended— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘housing counseling (as 
defined in section 1919(4)), financial counseling 
(as defined in section 1919(5),’’ after ‘‘medical 
and dental care,’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘, including individuals 
who are released from inpatient or residential 
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institutions,’’ after ‘‘support services to be pro-
vided to individuals’’. 
(2) REPORTS ON HOUSING COUNSELING AND 
FINANCIAL
COUNSELING
PROVIDED.—Section 
1942(a) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 300x–52(a)) is 
amended— 
(A) in paragraph (1), at the end by strik-
ing at the end ‘‘and’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2), at the end by strik-
ing the period and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(3) with respect to a grant under section 
1911, the number of individuals in the State who 
were transitioned out of inpatient or residential in-
stitutions for individuals with mental illness, the 
housing counseling and financial counseling fur-
nished to such individuals for purposes of such tran-
sition into the community, and the number of such 
individuals who returned to such an institution after 
being released from such institution and the reasons 
for such return.’’. 
(c) REPORTS
BY SECRETARY
OF HOUSING
AND 
URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND 
HUMAN SERVICES.— 
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(1) Not later than 6 months after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development and the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services shall each submit to the 
Congress a report describing the projected use of 
funds received under the applicable block grant pro-
gram referred to in section 4(a) for fiscal year 2010 
to provide housing counseling and financial coun-
seling (as such terms are defined in paragraphs (4) 
and (5) of section 1919 of the Public Health Service 
Act (42 U.S.C. 300x–8), as added by section 3) for 
individuals before their release from inpatient or res-
idential institutions for individuals with mental ill-
ness and biannual evaluations of the appropriateness 
of such counseling provided for such individuals fol-
lowing such release. 
(2) Not later than September 30, 2010, and an-
nually thereafter, the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development and the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services shall each submit to the Con-
gress a report describing the actual use of amounts 
received under the applicable block grant program 
referred to in section 4(a) for the previous 12-month 
period to provide the housing counseling, financial 
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counseling, and biannual evaluation described in 
paragraph (1). Each such report shall include— 
(A) an analysis of the feasibility and desir-
ability of requiring, as a condition of receipt of 
funds under the applicable block grant pro-
gram, that each State and unit of general local 
government either have a program providing for 
such housing counseling, financial counseling, 
and biannual evaluation or for the development 
of a prerelease housing plan; 
(B) an analysis of the feasibility and desir-
ability of requiring States and units of general 
local government to reserve for such purpose a 
certain portion or amount of the funds received 
under such block grant program; and 
(C) any recommendations of the applicable 
Secretary for legislative changes in such block 
grant program. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
subsections (a) and (b) shall apply to grants made for pe-
riods beginning on or after October 1, 2009. 
Æ 
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