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 either the campus mental-health program or the local nonemergency line. An institution that does not create and distribute such cards shall publish such information on its website.
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Timeline
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1334-1335)
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1334-1335)
Education
Child healthEducation programs fundingEmergency medical services and trauma careHealth facilities and institutionsHigher educationMental healthTelephone and wireless communication
To add suicide prevention resources to school identification cards.
USA115th CongressHR-6984| House
| Updated: 9/28/2018
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 either the campus mental-health program or the local nonemergency line. An institution that does not create and distribute such cards shall publish such information on its website.
Child healthEducation programs fundingEmergency medical services and trauma careHealth facilities and institutionsHigher educationMental healthTelephone and wireless communication