Title: Excellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Act of 2021
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Excellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Act of 2021
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 provides for additional grants to certified community behavioral health clinics.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2069 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2069

  To expand the Medicaid certified community behavioral health clinic 
demonstration program and to authorize funding for additional grants to 
             certified community behavioral health clinics.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 15, 2021

Ms. Stabenow (for herself, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Daines, Ms. Cortez 
 Masto, Ms. Ernst, Ms. Smith, and Mr. Tester) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
  To expand the Medicaid certified community behavioral health clinic 
demonstration program and to authorize funding for additional grants to 
             certified community behavioral health clinics.

    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 Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES DEMONSTRATION 
              PROGRAM.

    Section 223 of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (42 
U.S.C. 1396a note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c), by adding at the end the following 
        new paragraph:
            ``(3) Planning grants for additional states.--In addition 
        to the planning grants awarded under paragraph (1), the 
        Secretary shall award planning grants to States (other than 
        States selected to conduct demonstration programs under 
        paragraph (1) or (8) of subsection (d)) for the purpose of 
        developing proposals to participate in time-limited 
        demonstration programs described in subsection (d).'';
            (2) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) in paragraph (3), by striking ``Subject to 
                paragraph (8)'' and inserting ``Subject to paragraphs 
                (8) and (9)'';
                    (B) in paragraph (5)(C)(iii)(II), by inserting ``or 
                paragraph (9)'' after ``paragraph (8)'';
                    (C) in paragraph (7)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 
                        ``through the year in which the last 
                        demonstration under this section ends'' after 
                        ``annually thereafter'';
                            (ii) in subparagraph (B)--
                                    (I) by striking ``December 31, 
                                2021'' and inserting ``September 30, 
                                2023''; and
                                    (II) by adding at the end the 
                                following new sentence: ``Such 
                                recommendations shall include data 
                                collected after 2019.''; and
                            (iii) by adding at the end the following 
                        new subparagraph:
                    ``(C) Final evaluation.--Not later than 18 months 
                after all demonstration programs under this section 
                have ended, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a 
                final evaluation of such programs.''; and
                    (D) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(9) Further additional programs.--In addition to the 
        States selected under paragraphs (1) and (8), the Secretary 
        shall select any State that submits an application that 
        includes such information as the Secretary shall require to 
        conduct a demonstration program that meets the requirements of 
        this subsection for 2 years or through September 30, 2023, 
        whichever is longer.''; and
            (3) in subsection (f)(1)(B), by inserting ``, and 
        $40,000,000 for fiscal year 2021'' before the period.

SEC. 3. CERTIFIED COMMUNITY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CLINIC EXPANSION GRANTS.

    Part D of title V of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290dd 
et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 553. CERTIFIED COMMUNITY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CLINIC EXPANSION 
              GRANTS.

    ``(a) In General.--The Assistant Secretary shall award grants to 
communities and community organizations that meet the criteria for 
certified community behavioral health clinics under section 223(a) of 
the Protecting Access to Medicare Act A of 2014. Grants awarded under 
this subsection shall be for a period of not more than 5 years.
    ``(b) Technical Assistance.--The Assistant Secretary may provide 
appropriate information, training, and technical assistance through 
appropriate contract procedures to entities receiving grants under 
subsection (a), or to health or social service providers pursuing 
certified community behavioral health clinics status or partnering with 
certified community behavioral health clinics, State policymakers 
considering certified community behavioral health clinics 
implementation under the Medicaid program, and other stakeholders to 
facilitate successful implementation of the certification model.
    ``(c) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            ``(1) Grant program.--For purposes of awarding grants under 
        subsection (a), there is authorized to be appropriated 
        $500,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2022 through 2024.
            ``(2) Technical assistance.--For purposes of carrying out 
        the technical assistance program under subsection (b), there 
        are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for each of fiscal 
        years 2022 through 2026.''.
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