Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Reauthorization Act of 2022
Bill: S.3846 | Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John (R-TX)
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Reauthorization Act of 2022
This act expands the allowable use of grants under the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program. The program provides state, local, and tribal grants to improve the criminal justice system's response to people with mental health disorders.
Among the provisions, the act
Additionally, the act reauthorizes through FY2027 the requirement for the Department of Justice to examine and report on the prevalence of mentally ill offenders in prisons and jails.

[117th Congress Public Law 323]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 117-323
117th Congress

                                 An Act


 
To reauthorize the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program, and 
        for other purposes. <<NOTE: Dec. 27, 2022 -  [S. 3846]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Justice and 
Mental Health Collaboration Reauthorization Act of 2022.>> 
SECTION 1. <<NOTE: 34 USC 10101 note.>>  SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Justice and Mental Health 
Collaboration Reauthorization Act of 2022''.
SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF THE JUSTICE AND MENTAL HEALTH 
                    COLLABORATION PROGRAM.

    Section 2991(b)(5) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10651(b)(5)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (I)--
                    (A) in clause (i), by striking ``teams and treatment 
                accountability services for communities'' and inserting 
                ``teams, treatment accountability services for 
                communities, and training for State and local 
                prosecutors relating to diversion programming and 
                implementation'';
                    (B) in clause (v)--
                          (i) in subclause (III), by striking ``and'' at 
                      the end;
                          (ii) in subclause (IV), by striking the period 
                      at the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                          (iii) by adding at the end the following:
                                    ``(V) coordinate, implement, and 
                                administer models to address mental 
                                health calls that include specially 
                                trained officers and mental health 
                                crisis workers responding to those calls 
                                together.''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                          ``(vi) Suicide prevention services.--Funds may 
                      be used to develop, promote, and implement 
                      comprehensive suicide prevention programs and 
                      services for incarcerated individuals that include 
                      ongoing risk assessment.
                          ``(vii) Case management services.--Funds may 
                      be used for case management services for 
                      preliminary qualified offenders and individuals 
                      who are released from any penal or correctional 
                      institution to--
                                    ``(I) reduce recidivism; and
                                    ``(II) assist those individuals with 
                                reentry into the community.
                          ``(viii) Enhancing community capacity and 
                      links to mental health care.--Funds may be used to 
                      support, administer, or develop treatment capacity 
                      and

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                      increase access to mental health care and 
                      substance use disorder services for preliminary 
                      qualified offenders and individuals who are 
                      released from any penal or correctional 
                      institution.
                          ``(ix) Implementing 988.--Funds may be used to 
                      support the efforts of State and local governments 
                      to implement and expand the integration of the 988 
                      universal telephone number designated for the 
                      purpose of the national suicide prevention and 
                      mental health crisis hotline system under section 
                      251(e)(4) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
                      U.S.C. 251(e)(4)), including by hiring staff to 
                      support the implementation and expansion.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(K) Teams addressing mental health calls.--With 
                respect to a multidisciplinary team described in 
                subparagraph (I)(v) that receives funds from a grant 
                under this section, the multidisciplinary team--
                          ``(i) shall, to the extent practicable, 
                      provide response capability 24 hours each day and 
                      7 days each week to respond to crisis or mental 
                      health calls; and
                          ``(ii) may place a part of the team in a 911 
                      call center to facilitate the timely response to 
                      mental health crises.''.
SEC. 3. EXAMINATION AND REPORT ON PREVALENCE OF MENTALLY ILL 
                    OFFENDERS.

    Section 5(d) of the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime 
Reduction Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-
416; 122 Stat. 4355) is amended by striking ``2009'' and inserting 
``each of fiscal years 2023 through 2027''.

    Approved December 27, 2022.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 3846:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 168 (2022):
            June 23, considered and passed Senate.
            Nov. 29, considered and passed House, amended.
            Dec. 14, Senate concurred in House amendment.

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