To add suicide prevention resources to school identification cards.

Bill: 115-hr-6984
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Correa, J. Luis [D-CA-46]
Introduced: 2018-09-28
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health

Education programs funding

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Health facilities and institutions

Higher education

Mental health

Telephone and wireless communication
Latest action: action_date: 2018-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-09-28
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require an institution that creates and distributes student-identification cards to include on such cards phone contact information for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, the Crisis Text Line, and&nbsp;either the&nbsp;campus mental-health program or the local nonemergency line.</p> <p>An institution that does not create and distribute such cards shall publish such information on its website. </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6984 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 28, 2018 Mr. Correa introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To add suicide prevention resources to school identification cards.

1. Adding suicide prevention contact information to school identification cards Section 487(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1094 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (30) (A) In the case of an institution that creates and distributes identification cards for students after the date of enactment of this paragraph, such institution shall include phone contact information on such cards for the following organizations: (i) The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. (ii) The Crisis Text Line. (iii) Except as provided for in subparagraph (B), a campus mental health center or program, as determined by the institution. (B) If the institution does not have a campus mental health center or program, then the institution shall include a local nonemergency telephone number on the student identification cards described in subparagraph (A). (C) In the case of an institution that does not create and distribute identification cards for students after the date of enactment of this paragraph, such institution shall publish the suicide prevention contact information specified in subparagraph (A) on the website of such institution. .