118th Congress · HOUSE BILLBILL

H.R. 1423 — 911 Community Crisis Responders Act of 2023

“To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, to award grants to States, territories, political subdivisions of States and territories, Tribal governments, and consortia of Tribal governments to establish an unarmed mobile crisis response program, and for other purposes.”

Health

Introduced Mar 7, 2023

Last action Mar 17, 2023

Pipeline · Bill → Law

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Introduced

Mar 7, 2023

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Referred

Mar 17, 2023

E&C

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Committee

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House floor

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Senate

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Resolve Changes

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Signed

SummaryCRS Summary

This bill authorizes grants to dispatch unarmed, specialized health care or social service providers to respond to nonviolent emergency calls instead of law enforcement officers. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration may award grants to states, tribal governments (and consortia of tribal governments), and localities. Recipients may use the grants for hiring and training necessary staff, working with 9-1-1 dispatchers and 9-8-8 call centers to appropriately dispatch services in response to nonviolent emergency calls, and connecting individuals with local health and social service providers. (The 9-8-8 system provides callers with mental health or suicide crisis suppor...

Provisions · 2 sectionsIntroduced in House

Timeline · 3 actions

Mar 17, 2023

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Mar 7, 2023

Introduced in House

Mar 7, 2023

Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.