Ensuring Mental Health Service Access Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6397
Sponsor: Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Block grants
Child development
Child health
Child sexual abuse
Congressional reporting requirements
Correctional personnel
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Health and Human Services
Disasters
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Health planning
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Judicial officers
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Marriage counseling
Medical education
Medical fees
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medicare
Mental health services
Mental illness
Nurses
Prison alternatives
Prisoners
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Psychotherapy
Psychotropic drugs
Rural health
School health programs
School personnel
Sex offenders
Social Welfare
Social work
Suicide
Terminal care
Terrorism
Victims of crimes
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Ensuring Mental Health Services Access Act of 2006 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to support programs to promote mental health among all children and their families and to provide early intervention services to ameliorate identified mental health problems in children and adolescents.
 
Allows the Secretary, acting through the Director, to make grants to provide mental health services in response to public health emergencies. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to: (1) establish the National Mental Health Crisis Response Technical Assistance Center; and (2) award grants to provide for the training of mental health professionals with respect to the treatment of individuals who are victims of disasters.
 
Allows the Secretary to award grants to increase the coordination and development of disaster preparedness efforts relating to the needs of children.
 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for marriage and family therapist services.
 
Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to provide for the training of officers and employees of the state juvenile justice system on access to mental health and substance abuse treatment programs and services in the state for juveniles who come into contact with the state juvenile justice system.
 
Requires the Attorney General to make grants for the establishment and implementation of a program for juveniles who are confined to juvenile correctional facilities and who have mental health or substance abuse problems.
 
Establishes the Federal Coordinating Council on Criminalization of Juveniles to study the criminal and juvenile justice and mental health and substance abuse activities of the federal government and report on legislation to improve the treatment of mentally ill juveniles confined in a juvenile correctional facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House