SPRINT Act

Bill: 113-hr-4075
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Barber, Ron [D-AZ-2]
Introduced: 2014-02-25
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Department of Health and Human Services

Executive agency funding and structure

Health care coverage and access

Health promotion and preventive care

Medical research

Mental health

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Neurological disorders

Research administration and funding

Rural conditions and development
Latest action: action_date: 2014-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-02-25
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Suicide Prevention Research INnovaTion Act or the SPRINT Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health to use funds made available by this Act exclusively for the purpose of conducting and supporting: (1) research on the determinants of self-directed and other violence associated with mental illness, including studies designed to reduce the risk of self-harm, suicide, and interpersonal violence, especially in rural communities with a shortage of mental health services; and (2) brain research through the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. </p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 4075 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 25, 2014 Mr. Barber introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To provide funding to the National Institute of Mental Health to support suicide prevention and brain research, including funding for the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Suicide Prevention Research INnovaTion Act or the SPRINT Act . 2. Suicide prevention and brain research Subpart 16 of part C of title IV of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 285p et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following: 464U–1. Suicide prevention and brain research (a) In general The Director of the National Institute of Mental Health shall use the funds made available to such Institute pursuant to subsection (b) exclusively for the purpose of conducting and supporting— (1) research on the determinants of self-directed and other violence associated with mental illness, including studies designed to reduce the risk of self-harm, suicide, and interpersonal violence, especially in rural communities with a shortage of mental health services; and (2) brain research through the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. (b) Authorization of appropriations In addition to amounts otherwise made available to the National Institute of Mental Health, including amounts appropriated pursuant to section 402A(a), there are authorized to be appropriated to such Institute $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2015 through 2019 to carry out this section. .