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‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—To be eligible to receive a grant under 
this section, an entity shall be a State, political subdivision of 
a State, Indian tribe or tribal organization (as such terms are 
defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act), mental health system, health care facility, or any 
other entity the Assistant Secretary deems appropriate. 
‘‘(c) SPECIAL CONSIDERATION.—In selecting among applicants 
for a grant under this section, the Assistant Secretary may give 
special consideration to the potential of the applicant’s program 
to reduce hospitalization, homelessness, and involvement with the 
criminal justice system while improving the health and social out-
comes of the patient. 
‘‘(d) ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES.—The Assistant Secretary shall— 
‘‘(1) not later than the end of fiscal year 2021, submit 
a report to the appropriate congressional committees on the 
grant program under this section, including an evaluation of— 
‘‘(A) any cost savings and public health outcomes such 
as mortality, suicide, substance use disorders, hospitaliza-
tion, and use of services; 
‘‘(B) rates of involvement with the criminal justice 
system of patients; 
‘‘(C) rates of homelessness among patients; and 
‘‘(D) patient and family satisfaction with program 
participation; and 
‘‘(2) provide appropriate information, training, and tech-
nical assistance to grant recipients under this section to help 
such recipients to establish, maintain, or expand their assertive 
community treatment programs. 
‘‘(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—To carry out this section, there is author-
ized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 
2018 through 2022. 
‘‘(2) USE OF CERTAIN FUNDS.—Of the funds appropriated 
to carry out this section in any fiscal year, not more than 
5 percent shall be available to the Assistant Secretary for 
carrying out subsection (d).’’. 
SEC. 9016. SOBER TRUTH ON PREVENTING UNDERAGE DRINKING 
REAUTHORIZATION. 
Section 519B of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290bb– 
25b) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c)(3), by striking ‘‘fiscal year 2007’’ and 
all that follows through the period at the end and inserting 
‘‘each of the fiscal years 2018 through 2022.’’; 
(2) in subsection (d)(4), by striking ‘‘fiscal year 2007’’ and 
all that follows through the period at the end and inserting 
‘‘each of the fiscal years 2018 through 2022.’’; 
(3) in subsection (e)(1)(I), by striking ‘‘fiscal year 2007’’ 
and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting 
‘‘each of the fiscal years 2018 through 2022.’’; 
(4) in subsection (f)(2), by striking ‘‘$6,000,000 for fiscal 
year 2007’’ and all that follows through the period at the 
end and inserting ‘‘$3,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2018 
through 2022’’; and 
(5) by adding at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(g) REDUCING UNDERAGE DRINKING THROUGH SCREENING AND 
BRIEF INTERVENTION.—
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‘‘(1) GRANTS
TO
PEDIATRIC
HEALTH
CARE
PROVIDERS
TO 
REDUCE UNDERAGE DRINKING.—The Assistant Secretary may 
make grants to eligible entities to increase implementation 
of practices for reducing the prevalence of alcohol use among 
individuals under the age of 21, including college students. 
‘‘(2) PURPOSES.—Grants under this subsection shall be 
made to improve— 
‘‘(A) screening children and adolescents for alcohol use; 
‘‘(B) offering brief interventions to children and adoles-
cents to discourage such use; 
‘‘(C) educating parents about the dangers of, and 
methods of discouraging, such use; 
‘‘(D) diagnosing and treating alcohol use disorders; and 
‘‘(E) referring patients, when necessary, to other appro-
priate care. 
‘‘(3) USE OF FUNDS.—An entity receiving a grant under 
this subsection may use such funding for the purposes identified 
in paragraph (2) by— 
‘‘(A) providing training to health care providers; 
‘‘(B) disseminating best practices, including culturally 
and linguistically appropriate best practices, as appro-
priate, and developing and distributing materials; and 
‘‘(C) supporting other activities, as determined appro-
priate by the Assistant Secretary. 
‘‘(4) APPLICATION.—To be eligible to receive a grant under 
this subsection, an entity shall submit an application to the 
Assistant Secretary at such time, and in such manner, and 
accompanied by such information as the Assistant Secretary 
may require. Each application shall include— 
‘‘(A) a description of the entity; 
‘‘(B) a description of activities to be completed; 
‘‘(C) a description of how the services specified in para-
graphs (2) and (3) will be carried out and the qualifications 
for providing such services; and 
‘‘(D) a timeline for the completion of such activities. 
‘‘(5) DEFINITIONS.—For the purpose of this subsection: 
‘‘(A) BRIEF INTERVENTION.—The term ‘brief interven-
tion’ means, after screening a patient, providing the patient 
with brief advice and other brief motivational enhancement 
techniques designed to increase the insight of the patient 
regarding the patient’s alcohol use, and any realized or 
potential consequences of such use, to effect the desired 
related behavioral change. 
‘‘(B) CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS.—The term ‘children 
and adolescents’ means any person under 21 years of age. 
‘‘(C) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘eligible entity’ means 
an entity consisting of pediatric health care providers and 
that is qualified to support or provide the activities identi-
fied in paragraph (2). 
‘‘(D) PEDIATRIC
HEALTH
CARE
PROVIDER.—The term 
‘pediatric health care provider’ means a provider of primary 
health care to individuals under the age of 21 years. 
‘‘(E) SCREENING.—The term ‘screening’ means using 
validated patient interview techniques to identify and 
assess the existence and extent of alcohol use in a patient.’’.
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SEC. 9017. CENTER AND PROGRAM REPEALS. 
Part B of title V of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
290bb et seq.) is amended by striking section 506B (42 U.S.C. 
290aa–5b), the second section 514 (42 U.S.C. 290bb–9) relating 
to methamphetamine and amphetamine treatment initiatives, and 
each of sections 514A, 517, 519A, 519C, 519E, 520B, 520D, and 
520H (42 U.S.C. 290bb–8, 290bb–23, 290bb–25a, 290bb–25c, 290bb– 
25e, 290bb–33, 290bb–35, and 290bb–39). 
Subtitle B—Strengthening the Health Care 
Workforce 
SEC. 9021. MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH EDUCATION AND 
TRAINING GRANTS. 
Section 756 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 294e– 
1) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking 
‘‘of higher education’’; and 
(B) by striking paragraphs (1) through (4) and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(1) accredited institutions of higher education or accredited 
professional training programs that are establishing or 
expanding internships or other field placement programs in 
mental health in psychiatry, psychology, school psychology, 
behavioral pediatrics, psychiatric nursing (which may include 
master’s and doctoral level programs), social work, school social 
work, substance use disorder prevention and treatment, mar-
riage and family therapy, occupational therapy, school coun-
seling, or professional counseling, including such programs with 
a focus on child and adolescent mental health and transitional- 
age youth; 
‘‘(2) accredited doctoral, internship, and post-doctoral resi-
dency programs of health service psychology (including clinical 
psychology, counseling, and school psychology) for the develop-
ment and implementation of interdisciplinary training of psy-
chology graduate students for providing behavioral health serv-
ices, including substance use disorder prevention and treatment 
services, as well as the development of faculty in health service 
psychology; 
‘‘(3) accredited master’s and doctoral degree programs of 
social work for the development and implementation of inter-
disciplinary training of social work graduate students for pro-
viding behavioral health services, including substance use dis-
order prevention and treatment services, and the development 
of faculty in social work; and 
‘‘(4) State-licensed mental health nonprofit and for-profit 
organizations to enable such organizations to pay for programs 
for preservice or in-service training in a behavioral health- 
related paraprofessional field with preference for preservice 
or in-service training of paraprofessional child and adolescent 
mental health workers.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by striking paragraph (5);
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(B) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (4) as 
paragraphs (2) through (5), respectively; 
(C) by inserting before paragraph (2), as so redesig-
nated, the following: 
‘‘(1) an ability to recruit and place the students described 
in subsection (a) in areas with a high need and high demand 
population;’’; 
(D) in paragraph (3), as so redesignated, by striking 
‘‘subsection (a)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph (2), especially 
individuals with mental disorder symptoms or diagnoses, 
particularly children and adolescents, and transitional-age 
youth’’; 
(E) in paragraph (4), as so redesignated, by striking 
‘‘;’’ and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(F) in paragraph (5), as so redesignated, by striking 
‘‘; and’’ and inserting a period; 
(3) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘authorized under sub-
section (a)(1)’’ and inserting ‘‘awarded under paragraphs (2) 
and (3) of subsection (a)’’; 
(4) by amending subsection (d) to read as follows: 
‘‘(d) PRIORITY.—In selecting grant recipients under this section, 
the Secretary shall give priority to— 
‘‘(1) programs that have demonstrated the ability to train 
psychology, psychiatry, and social work professionals to work 
in integrated care settings for purposes of recipients under 
paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of subsection (a); and 
‘‘(2) programs for paraprofessionals that emphasize the role 
of the family and the lived experience of the consumer and 
family-paraprofessional partnerships for purposes of recipients 
under subsection (a)(4).’’; and 
(5) by striking subsection (e) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(e) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 4 years after the 
date of enactment of the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis 
Reform Act of 2016, the Secretary shall include in the biennial 
report submitted to Congress under section 501(m) an assessment 
on the effectiveness of the grants under this section in— 
‘‘(1) providing graduate students support for experiential 
training (internship or field placement); 
‘‘(2) recruiting students interested in behavioral health 
practice; 
‘‘(3) recruiting students in accordance with subsection 
(b)(1); 
‘‘(4) developing and implementing interprofessional training 
and integration within primary care; 
‘‘(5) developing and implementing accredited field place-
ments and internships; and 
‘‘(6) collecting data on the number of students trained in 
behavioral health care and the number of available accredited 
internships and field placements. 
‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For each of fiscal 
years 2018 through 2022, there are authorized to be appropriated 
to carry out this section $50,000,000, to be allocated as follows: 
‘‘(1) For grants described in subsection (a)(1), $15,000,000. 
‘‘(2) For grants described in subsection (a)(2), $15,000,000. 
‘‘(3) For grants described in subsection (a)(3), $10,000,000. 
‘‘(4) For grants described in subsection (a)(4), $10,000,000.’’.