I 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7116 
To provide for improvements in the implementation of the National Suicide 
Prevention Lifeline, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 17, 2022 
Mr. CA´RDENAS (for himself, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Ms. MATSUI, Ms. BLUNT 
ROCHESTER, Mr. MOULTON, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. BEYER, and Mr. 
RASKIN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on 
Ways and Means, Armed Services, Veterans’ Affairs, and Oversight and 
Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide for improvements in the implementation of the 
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘9– 
8–8 Implementation Act of 2022’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
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Sec. 1. Short title. 
TITLE I—SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES 
ADMINISTRATION 
Sec. 101. Behavioral Health Crisis Coordinating Office. 
Sec. 102. National suicide prevention lifeline program. 
Sec. 103. Regional and local lifeline call center program. 
Sec. 104. Evidence-based and best practice crisis care programs. 
Sec. 105. Mental Health Crisis Response Partnership Pilot Program. 
Sec. 106. National suicide prevention media campaign. 
TITLE II—HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
Sec. 201. Health center capital grants. 
Sec. 202. Expanding behavioral health workforce training programs. 
TITLE III—BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CRISIS SERVICES EXPANSION 
Sec. 301. Crisis response continuum of care. 
Sec. 302. Coverage of crisis response services. 
Sec. 303. Building the crisis continuum infrastructure. 
Sec. 304. Incident reporting. 
TITLE IV—MEDICAID AMENDMENTS 
Sec. 401. Revisions to the State option to provide qualifying community-based 
mobile crisis intervention services and other services under 
State plans under the Medicaid program. 
Sec. 402. Revisions to the IMD exclusion under Medicaid. 
Sec. 403. Excellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment. 
TITLE 
I—SUBSTANCE 
ABUSE 
AND MENTAL HEALTH SERV-
ICES ADMINISTRATION 
SEC. 101. BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CRISIS COORDINATING OF-
FICE. 
Part A of title V of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 290aa et seq.) is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 506B. BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CRISIS COORDINATING 
OFFICE. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting through 
the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance 
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Use, shall establish an office to coordinate work relating 
to behavioral health crisis care across the operating divi-
sions of the Department of Health and Human Services, 
including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 
and the Health Resources and Services Administration 
and external stakeholders. 
‘‘(b) DUTY.—The office established under subsection 
(a) shall— 
‘‘(1) convene Federal, State, Tribal, local, and 
private partners; 
‘‘(2) launch and manage Federal workgroups 
charged with making recommendations regarding be-
havioral health crisis financing, workforce, equity, 
data, and technology, program oversight, public 
awareness, and engagement; and 
‘‘(3) support technical assistance, data analysis, 
and evaluation functions in order to develop a crisis 
care system to establish nationwide standards with 
the objective of expanding the capacity of, and ac-
cess to, local crisis call centers, mobile crisis care, 
crisis stabilization, psychiatric emergency services, 
and rapid post-crisis follow-up care provided by— 
‘‘(A) the National Suicide Prevention and 
Mental Health Crisis Hotline and Response 
System; 
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