Improving Mental Health Access for Students Act

United States116th CongressHR-3192House of Representatives
Updated: Jun 11, 2019

Summary

Improving Mental Health Access for Students Act This bill requires institutions of higher education (IHEs) that participate in federal student aid programs to share contact information for suicide prevention resources with students. If IHEs distribute student identification cards, then they must include on the cards phone numbers for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, the Crisis Text Line, and a campus mental-health center or program. If IHEs do not create such cards, then they must publish the numbers on the IHEs' websites.

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Timeline

Latest companion bill action

S-1782: Improving Mental Health Access for Students Act

Held at the desk.

  1. Introduced in House

  2. Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

    House of Representatives

  3. Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E744)

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