Supporting Children’s Mental Health Care Access Act of 2022
Bill: H.R.7076 | Sponsor: Rep. Schrier, Kim (D-WA)
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Supporting Children's Mental Health Care Access Act of 2022
This bill reauthorizes through FY2027 two grant programs that support pediatric mental and behavioral health services and interventions.
First, it reauthorizes and makes changes to a grant program for states, localities, and Indian tribes for statewide or regional telehealth access programs to promote the integration of behavioral health in pediatric primary care. Specific changes include allowing a nonprofit organization to receive the grant if the state (1) does not apply for the grant, and (2) supports the nonprofit's receipt of it. Additionally, recipients may use grant funds to support schools and emergency departments.
Second, the bill reauthorizes a grant program for human services agencies and nonprofits to develop and maintain infant and early childhood mental health promotion, intervention, and treatment programs.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the pediatric 
    mental health care access grant program, and for other purposes.

    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 the section enumerator, by striking ``330M'' and 
        inserting ``330M.'';
            (2) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``Indian tribes and tribal 
                organizations'' and inserting ``Indian Tribes and 
                Tribal organizations''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``or, in the case of a State that 
                does not submit an application, a nonprofit entity that 
                has the support of the State'' after ``450b))'';
            (3) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (G), by inserting 
                        ``developmental-behavioral pediatricians,'' 
                        after ``adolescent psychiatrists,'';
                            (ii) in subparagraph (H), by striking ``; 
                        and'' at the end and inserting a semicolon;
                            (iii) by redesignating subparagraph (I) as 
                        subparagraph (J); and
                            (iv) by inserting after subparagraph (H) 
                        the following:
                    ``(I) maintain an up-to-date list of community-
                based supports for children with mental health 
                problems; and'';
                    (B) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph 
                (3);
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
            ``(2) 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.''; and
                    (D) in paragraph (3), as redesignated by 
                subparagraph (B), by inserting ``Such a team may 
                include a developmental-behavioral pediatrician.'' 
                after ``mental health counselor.'';
            (4) in subsections (c), (d), and (f), by striking ``Indian 
        tribe, or tribal organization'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``Indian Tribe, Tribal organization, or nonprofit 
        entity''; and
            (5) by striking subsection (g) and inserting the following:
    ``(g) Technical Assistance.--The Secretary shall award grants or 
contracts to one or more eligible entities (as defined by the 
Secretary) for the purposes of providing technical assistance and 
evaluation support to grantees under subsection (a).
    ``(h) Authorization of Appropriations.--To carry out this section, 
there are authorized to be appropriated--
            ``(1) $14,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 
        2025; and
            ``(2) $30,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 
        2027.''.

SEC. 3. INFANT AND EARLY CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION, 
              INTERVENTION, AND TREATMENT.

    Section 399Z-2(f) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280h-
6(f)) is amended by striking ``$20,000,000 for the period of fiscal 
years 2018 through 2022'' and inserting ``$50,000,000 for the period of 
fiscal years 2023 through 2027''.
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