Assisting School Mental Health Professionals Through Work Study Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-4843
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Newman, Marie [D-IL-3]
Introduced: 2021-07-29
Policy area: Education
Latest action: action_date: 2021-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-07-29
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Assisting School Mental Health Professionals Through Work Study Act of 2021</strong></p> <p>This bill adds assisting school-based mental health professionals to the list of community services in which undergraduate, graduate, and professional students may participate under the Federal Work-Study Program.</p> <p>Specifically, the bill revises the definition of <em>community services</em> to include activities in which the student assists a mental health professional with appropriate tasks (e.g., administrative assistance) so long as the professional is (1) a school-based mental health services provider, or (2) an overseer of a school-based mental health services provider.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4843 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 29, 2021 Ms. Newman (for herself and Mr. Moolenaar ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include student assistance to certain mental health professionals as community services under the Federal work-study program.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Assisting School Mental Health Professionals Through Work Study Act of 2021 . 2. School-based mental health community services Section 441(c) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1087–51(c) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (3), by striking and after the semicolon; (2) in paragraph (4)(C), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (5) activities in which a student assists a mental health professional with appropriate tasks (which may include administrative assistance, but which shall not include the direct provision of mental health services by the student), provided that the mental health professional— (A) is a school-based mental health services provider (as such term is defined in section 4102(6) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965) of any preschool, Head Start program, early childhood education program, or elementary or secondary school that serves community residents; or (B) is an overseer of a school-based mental health services provider described in subparagraph (A). .