Title: Native American Suicide Prevention Act of 2018
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Native American Suicide Prevention Act of 2018
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require a state or state-designated entity receiving support from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration for development and implementation of a statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategy to agree to collaborate with each of the state's federally recognized Indian tribes, tribal organizations, urban Indian organizations, and Native Hawaiian health care systems regarding the strategy.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3460 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3460

   To amend section 520E of the Public Health Service Act to require 
    States and their designees receiving grants for development and 
 implementation of statewide suicide early intervention and prevention 
strategies to collaborate with each Federally recognized Indian tribe, 
  tribal organization, urban Indian organization, and Native Hawaiian 
                    health care system in the State.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 18, 2018

 Ms. Warren (for herself, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Udall, Ms. Heitkamp, Ms. 
 Cortez Masto, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. King, Ms. 
  Duckworth, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Tester, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Sullivan, Ms. 
  Smith, Mr. Heinrich, and Mr. Schatz) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend section 520E of the Public Health Service Act to require 
    States and their designees receiving grants for development and 
 implementation of statewide suicide early intervention and prevention 
strategies to collaborate with each Federally recognized Indian tribe, 
  tribal organization, urban Indian organization, and Native Hawaiian 
                    health care system in the State.

    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 ``Native American Suicide Prevention 
Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. COLLABORATION WITH FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED INDIAN TRIBES, TRIBAL 
              ORGANIZATIONS, URBAN INDIAN ORGANIZATIONS, AND NATIVE 
              HAWAIIAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPMENT AND 
              IMPLEMENTATION OF STATEWIDE SUICIDE EARLY INTERVENTION 
              AND PREVENTION STRATEGIES.

    Subsection (e) of section 520E of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 290bb-36) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) Collaboration with federally recognized indian 
        tribes, tribal organizations, urban indian organizations, and 
        native hawaiian health care systems.--As a condition on the 
        receipt of a grant or cooperative agreement under this section 
        for development and implementation of a statewide early 
        intervention and prevention strategy, a State or an eligible 
        entity designated by a State pursuant to subsection (b)(1)(B) 
        shall agree to collaborate with each Federally recognized 
        Indian tribe and tribal organization (as defined in the Indian 
        Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act), each urban 
        Indian organization (as defined in the Indian Health Care 
        Improvement Act), and each Native Hawaiian health care system 
        (as defined in section 12 of the Native Hawaiian Health Care 
        Improvement Act) in the State regarding such development and 
        implementation.''.
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