share best practices on how to create and implement 
mental health screening and referral programs that 
have the largest impact on reducing crime rates and 
improving employment and wage rates for individ-
uals released from prison or jail. 
(5) Work in coordination with mental health 
outreach teams as established under section 2, to en-
sure that the Program is operating as required. 
(6) Determine if a grant awarded by the Pro-
gram is not meeting the requirements of the Pro-
gram and mandate necessary changes and reduce 
funding if such changes are not made. 
(b) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Advisory Board 
shall provide technical assistance to the Bureau of Pris-
ons, States, and localities in setting up and administering 
the Program and shall identify evidence-backed models for 
the administration of mental health screening and referral 
programs that the Bureau of Prisons, States, and local-
ities can look to when designing their own programs. 
(c) MEMBERSHIP.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall 
appoint members to serve on the Advisory Board es-
tablished under subsection (a) who have expertise 
with respect to— 
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(A) designing and administering mental 
health screenings and providing referrals for 
corrections officers; 
(B) mental healthcare within prisons or 
jails; or 
(C) program evaluation using rigorous ex-
perimental and quasi-experimental statistical 
methods. 
(2) NUMBER
OF
MEMBERS.—The Attorney 
General shall appoint as many members to the Advi-
sory Board established under subsection (a) as 
deemed necessary by the Attorney General. 
SEC. 5. FUNDING. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—There is authorized to be ap-
propriated to the Attorney General to carry out this Act— 
(1) $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2025; 
(2) $55,000,000 for fiscal year 2026; 
(3) $60,000,000 for fiscal year 2027; 
(4) $65,000,000 for fiscal year 2028; and 
(5) $70,000,000 for fiscal year 2029. 
(b) DISTRIBUTION
OF FUNDS.—Of the amounts 
made available under subsection (a), the Attorney General 
shall use— 
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(1) 90 percent of such amount for a grant pro-
gram under sections 2 and 3, as applicable, of 
which— 
(A) 20 percent shall go to the Bureau of 
Prisons for screening and referral implementa-
tion activities at Federal prisons; 
(B) 20 percent shall go to States as com-
petitive grants to carry out screening and refer-
ral implementation activities at State prisons; 
and 
(C) 50 percent shall go to localities as 
competitive grants to carry out screening and 
referral implementation activities at locally-ad-
ministered jails; 
(2) 5 percent of such amount to carry out eval-
uation activities under section 5; and 
(3) 5 percent of such amount for the Advisory 
Board to provide technical assistance to the Bureau 
of Prisons, States, and localities and for general op-
erations as described in section 4. 
SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means any 
State of the United States, the District of Columbia, 
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Is-
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lands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Common-
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. 
(2) LOCALITY.—The term ‘‘locality’’ means any 
city, county, township, town, borough, parish, vil-
lage, or other general purpose political subdivision of 
a State. 
(3) MENTAL
HEALTHCARE
PROVIDER.—The 
term ‘‘mental healthcare provider’’ means a fully-li-
censed professional or group of professionals who di-
agnose mental health conditions and provide mental 
health treatment, and who operate near to the rel-
evant jail or prison. Mental healthcare providers may 
provide services at hospitals or at private clinics. 
(4) MENTAL
HEALTHCARE
CENTER.— The 
term ‘‘mental healthcare center’’ means any facility 
where one or more mental healthcare providers offer 
mental health services, such as a hospital or private 
clinic. 
(5) JAIL
OR
PRISON
ADMINISTRATOR.—The 
term ‘‘jail or prison administrator’’ means any indi-
vidual who has been appointed to a supervisory posi-
tion in a Federal, State, or local incarceration facil-
ity by the Federal Government, a State, or a local-
ity. 
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(6) LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.—The term 
‘‘law enforcement official’’ means any officer of an 
entity administered by a locality, State, or the Fed-
eral Government that exists primarily to prevent and 
detect crime and enforce criminal laws who is des-
ignated by the leadership of that entity to represent 
the entity. 
(7) CORRECTIONS
OFFICERS.—Any officer or 
employee of any prison, jail, or other detention facil-
ity, operated by, or under contract to, a Federal gov-
ernmental agency, whose job responsibilities include 
providing for the custody of incarcerated individuals. 
(8) ELIGIBLE DETENTION CENTER.—The term 
‘‘eligible detention center’’ means any prison or jail 
administered by the Bureau of Prisons or a State or 
any jail administered by a State or locality. 
(9) SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS.—The term ‘‘se-
vere mental illness’’ means one or more mental, be-
havioral, or emotional disorders that results in seri-
ous functional impairment and substantially inter-
feres with or limits major life activities. 
Æ 
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