Supporting Children's Mental Health Care Access Act of 2022
Bill: S.3864 | Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher (D-CT)
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Supporting Children's Mental Health Care Access Act of 2022
This bill reauthorizes through FY2027 and makes changes to grants for states, localities, and Indian tribes to promote the integration of behavioral health in pediatric primary care through statewide or regional telehealth access programs.
Specific changes include allowing grant recipients to use funds to support schools and emergency departments.

To improve the pediatric mental health care access grant program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Supporting Children's Mental Health 
Care Access Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. PEDIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH CARE ACCESS GRANTS.

    Section 330M of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254c-19) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (G)--
                                    (I) by inserting ``developmental-
                                behavioral pediatricians,'' after 
                                ``adolescent psychiatrists,''; and
                                    (II) by inserting ``, and which may 
                                include addiction specialists,'' after 
                                ``mental health counselors'';
                            (ii) in subparagraph (H), by striking ``; 
                        and'' and inserting a semicolon;
                            (iii) in subparagraph (I), by striking the 
                        period and inserting ``; and''; and
                            (iv) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(J) maintain an up-to-date list of community-
                based supports for children with mental health 
                problems.'';
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``, and which 
                may include a developmental-behavioral pediatrician and 
                an addiction specialist'' before the period at the end 
                of the first sentence; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Support to schools and emergency departments.--In 
        addition to the required activities specified in paragraph (1), 
        a statewide or regional network of pediatric mental health 
        teams referred to in subsection (a), with respect to which a 
        grant under such subsection may be used, may provide support to 
        schools and emergency departments.'';
            (2) by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (h);
            (3) by inserting after subsection (f) the following:
    ``(g) Technical Assistance.--The Secretary may award a grant to an 
eligible entity for purposes of providing technical assistance to 
recipients of grants under subsection (a).''; and
            (4) in subsection (h), as so redesignated, by striking 
        ``$9,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2018 through 2022'' 
        and inserting ``such sums as may be necessary for the period of 
        fiscal years 2023 through 2027''.
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