of Prisons, States, and localities and for general op-
erations as described in section 4. 
SEC. 7. 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-
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 men-
tal health services, such as a hospital or private clin-
ic. 
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(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. 
(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) 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. 
(8) 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. 
(9) 
INDEPENDENT
RESEARCH
ORGANIZA-
TIONS.—The term ‘‘independent research organiza-
tion’’ means an entity that is not operated or con-
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trolled by a governmental body that conducts high- 
quality and rigorous experimental and quasi-experi-
mental evaluations. 
(10) RANDOMIZED
CONTROL
EXPERIMENTAL 
RESEARCH DESIGN.—The term ‘‘randomized control 
experimental research design’’ means a study design 
that utilizes a randomized control trial methodology 
to determine the impact of the program on partici-
pants, by comparing program outcomes between a 
randomly assigned sample population that has re-
ceived the survey and referral and a randomly as-
signed control population that has not received the 
survey and referral. 
(11) RESPONSES TO THE SURVEY INDICATE SE-
VERE MENTAL ILLNESS.—The term ‘‘responses to 
the survey indicate severe mental illness’’ means an 
individual answer’s ‘‘yes’’ to multiple questions with 
respect to the symptoms of a severe mental illness 
or to any question relating to prior use of a mental 
health-related medication or inpatient care related to 
a mental illness. 
(12) QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL
RESEARCH
DE-
SIGN.—The term ‘‘quasi-experimental research de-
sign’’ means a study design that utilizes a non-ran-
domized methodology and model to determine the 
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impact of the program on participants, by com-
paring program outcomes between a non-randomly 
assigned sample population that has received the 
survey and referral and a non-randomly assigned 
control population that is constructed to be statis-
tically identical to the sample population but without 
having received the survey and referral. 
Æ 
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