I 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4349 
To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an 
institution for mental diseases bed registry program. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 7, 2016 
Mr. TONKO introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
to establish an institution for mental diseases bed reg-
istry program. 
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 ‘‘Coordinating Crisis 
Care Act’’. 
SEC. 2. INSTITUTION FOR MENTAL DISEASES BED REG-
ISTRY GRANT PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the 
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administra-
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tion, shall award grants to States to develop and admin-
ister, or maintain an existing, real-time Internet-based bed 
registry described in subsection (b) to collect, aggregate, 
and display information about beds in public and private 
inpatient psychiatric facilities and public and private crisis 
stabilization units and residential community mental 
health and residential substance abuse treatment facilities 
to facilitate the identification and designation of facilities 
for the temporary treatment of individuals in psychiatric 
or substance abuse crisis. 
(b) REGISTRY REQUIREMENTS.—A bed registry de-
scribed in this subsection is a registry that— 
(1) includes descriptive information for every 
public and private inpatient psychiatric facility and 
every public and private crisis stabilization unit and 
residential community mental health and residential 
substance abuse facility in the State involved, includ-
ing contact information for the facility or unit; 
(2) provides real-time information about the 
number of beds available at each facility or unit and, 
for each available bed, the type of patient that may 
be admitted, the level of security provided, and any 
other information that may be necessary to allow for 
the proper identification of appropriate facilities for 
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treatment of individuals in psychiatric or substance 
abuse crisis; and 
(3) allows employees and designees of commu-
nity mental health and substance abuse service pro-
viders, employees of inpatient psychiatric facilities or 
public and private crisis stabilization units and resi-
dential community mental health and residential 
substance abuse treatment facilities, and health care 
providers working in an emergency room of a hos-
pital or clinic or other facility rendering emergency 
medical care to perform searches of the registry to 
identify available beds that are appropriate for the 
treatment of individuals in psychiatric or substance 
abuse crisis. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$15,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2016 through 
2020. 
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