Comprehensive Behavioral Health Reform and Recovery Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4435
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2016-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Advisory bodies
Aging
Child health
Civil actions and liability
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Labor
Department of the Treasury
Disability and health-based discrimination
Drug therapy
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Executive agency funding and structure
Family services
Government information and archives
Government liability
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Higher education
Home and outpatient care
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Hospital care
Indian social and development programs
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Lawyers and legal services
Licensing and registrations
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Mental health
Minority health
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Neurological disorders
Nursing
Prescription drugs
Research administration and funding
Right of privacy
Rural conditions and development
School administration
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local government operations
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Violent crime
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-02
text: 

Comprehensive Behavioral Health Reform and Recovery Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to revise Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) authorities, oversight, and programs, including to establish various grant programs.
 
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Education must: (1) organize a national awareness campaign regarding serious mental illness, and (2) support a public health approach to mental health services.
 
 This bill amends the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act to require HHS to carry out activities regarding disclosure of the protected health information of individuals with mental or substance use disorders.
 
 This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSAct) to require state Medicaid plans to cover specified services, including same day primary care and mental health care services.
 
 Title XVIII (Medicare) of the SSAct is revised, including to eliminate the lifetime limit on inpatient psychiatric hospital services.
 
 HHS must award grants for programs and services, including telehealth services provided by psychiatrists or psychologists.
 
The bill provides liability protection to certain health professional volunteers.
 
HHS must maintain a Minority Fellowship Program for mental and substance use disorder treatment professionals to improve services for racial and ethnic minority populations.
 
The bill makes occupational therapists eligible for the National Health Service Corps.
 
 The bill revises provisions regarding parity between mental health and substance use disorder benefits and medical and surgical benefits.
 
 This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act, including to require practitioners to complete training before dispensing opioids, which are drugs with effects similar to opium, such as certain pain medications.
 
 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must provide support to entities to improve drug overdose surveillance and reporting.
 
HHS must establish a loan repayment program for substance use disorder health professionals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-02-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Natural Resources, 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: 2016-02-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Natural Resources, 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: 2016-02-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Natural Resources, 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: 2016-02-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Natural Resources, 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: 2016-02-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Natural Resources, 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: 2016-02-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Natural Resources, 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: 2016-02-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-02
text: Introduced in House