SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Child Health Care Cri-
sis Relief Act of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Center for Mental Health Services esti-
mates that 20 percent or 13,700,000 of the Nation’s 
children and adolescents have a diagnosable mental 
disorder, and about 2⁄3 of these children and adoles-
cents do not receive mental health care. 
(2) According to ‘‘Mental Health: A Report of 
the Surgeon General’’ in 1999, there are approxi-
mately 6,000,000 to 9,000,000 children and adoles-
cents in the United States (accounting for 9 to 13 
percent of all children and adolescents in the United 
States) who meet the definition for having a serious 
emotional disturbance. 
(3) According to the Center for Mental Health 
Services, approximately 5 to 9 percent of United 
States children and adolescents meet the definition 
for extreme functional impairment. 
(4) According to the Surgeon General’s Report, 
there are particularly acute shortages in the num-
bers of mental health service professionals serving 
children and adolescents with serious emotional dis-
orders.
(5) According to the National Center for Edu-
cation Statistics in the Department of Education, 
there are approximately 513 students for each school 
counselor in United States schools, which ratio is 
more than double the recommended ratio of 250 stu-
dents for each school counselor. 
(6) According to the Bureau of Health Profes-
sions in 2000, the demand for the services of child 
and adolescent psychiatry is projected to increase by 
100 percent by 2020. 
(7) The development and application of knowl-
edge about the impact of disasters on children, ado-
lescents, and their families has been impeded by crit-
ical shortages of qualified researchers and practi-
tioners specializing in this work. 
(8) According to the Bureau of the Census, the 
population of children and adolescents in the United 
States under the age of 18 is projected to grow by 
more than 40 percent in the next 50 years from 70 
million to more than 100 million by 2050.
SEC. 3. LOAN REPAYMENTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND GRANTS 
TO IMPROVE CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MEN-
TAL HEALTH CARE. 
Part E of title VII of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 294n et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘Subpart 3—Child and Adolescent Mental Health 
Care 
‘‘SEC. 
771. 
LOAN 
REPAYMENTS, 
SCHOLARSHIPS, 
AND 
GRANTS TO IMPROVE CHILD AND ADOLES-
CENT MENTAL HEALTH CARE. 
‘‘(a) LOAN REPAYMENTS FOR CHILD AND ADOLES-
CENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE PROFESSIONALS.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary, acting 
through the Administrator of the Health Resources 
and Services Administration, may establish a pro-
gram of entering into contracts on a competitive 
basis with eligible individuals under which— 
‘‘(A) the eligible individual agrees to be 
employed full-time for a specified period (which 
shall be at least 2 years) in providing mental 
health services to children and adolescents; and 
‘‘(B) the Secretary agrees to make, during 
the period of employment described in subpara-
graph (A), partial or total payments on behalf 
of the individual on the principal and interest