Title: Excellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Expansion Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Excellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Expansion Act
This bill increases the number of states that may participate in two-year Medicaid demonstration programs that improve access to community mental health services. It also extends the two-year term for existing state demonstration programs by two years.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1767 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1767

      To increase the number of States that may conduct Medicaid 
  demonstration programs to improve access to community mental health 
                   services, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 14, 2019

Ms. Matsui (for herself, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. 
 Carson of Indiana, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Cole, Mr. Rodney Davis 
of Illinois, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Emmer, Mr. 
  Fitzpatrick, Mr. Gottheimer, Mr. Higgins of New York, Ms. Kendra S. 
  Horn of Oklahoma, Mr. Katko, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. King of New York, Mr. 
  Luetkemeyer, Mr. Lujan, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New 
York, Ms. McCollum, Ms. Meng, Mr. Peterson, Miss Rice of New York, Ms. 
 Roybal-Allard, Mr. Schrader, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Sires, Mr. Stauber, Ms. 
Stefanik, Mr. Tonko, and Ms. Wild) introduced the following bill; which 
          was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
      To increase the number of States that may conduct Medicaid 
  demonstration programs to improve access to community mental health 
                   services, 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 ``Excellence in Mental Health and 
Addiction Treatment Expansion Act''.

SEC. 2. COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM.

    Section 223(d) of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (42 
U.S.C. 1396a note) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3)--
                    (A) by striking ``Not more than'' and inserting 
                ``Subject to paragraph (8), not more than''; and
                    (B) by striking ``2-year'' and inserting ``4-
                year''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(8) Additional programs.--In addition to the 8 States 
        selected under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall, not later 
        than one year after the date of the enactment of the Excellence 
        in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Expansion Act, select 
        11 States (which shall not include any States selected under 
        paragraph (1)) to participate in 2-year demonstration programs, 
        that meet the requirements of this subsection, and represent a 
        diverse selection of geographic areas, including rural and 
        underserved areas.''.
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