Comprehensive Behavioral Health Reform and Recovery Act of 2016
Latest action · Feb 10, 2016 Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 2, 2016
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Comprehensive Behavioral Health Reform and Recovery Act of 2016
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to revise Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) authorities, oversight, and programs, including to establish various grant programs.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Education must: (1) organize a national awareness campaign regarding serious mental illness, and (2) support a public health approach to mental health services.
This bill amends the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act to require HHS to carry out activities regarding disclosure of the protected health information of individuals with mental or substance use disorders.
This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSAct) to require state Medicaid plans to cover specified services, including same day primary care and mental health care services.
Title XVIII (Medicare) of the SSAct is revised, including to eliminate the lifetime limit on inpatient psychiatric hospital services.
HHS must award grants for programs and services, including telehealth services provided by psychiatrists or psychologists.
The bill provides liability protection to certain health professional volunteers.
HHS must maintain a Minority Fellowship Program for mental and substance use disorder treatment professionals to improve services for racial and ethnic minority populations.
The bill makes occupational therapists eligible for the National Health Service Corps.
The bill revises provisions regarding parity between mental health and substance use disorder benefits and medical and surgical benefits.
This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act, including to require practitioners to complete training before dispensing opioids, which are drugs with effects similar to opium, such as certain pain medications.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must provide support to entities to improve drug overdose surveillance and reporting.
HHS must establish a loan repayment program for substance use disorder health professionals.
Cosponsors 34
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 2, 2016 to Sep 6, 2016; 5 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IA | David Loebsack | Original | Feb 2, 2016 |
| D-CO | Diana DeGette | Original | Feb 2, 2016 |
| D-CA | Doris O. Matsui | Original | Feb 2, 2016 |
| D-MA | Joseph P. Kennedy III | Original | Feb 2, 2016 |
| D-NY | Paul Tonko | Original | Feb 2, 2016 |
| D-NM | Ben Ray Luján | Feb 3, 2016 | |
| D-CA | Tony Cárdenas | Feb 3, 2016 | |
| D-NY | Yvette D. Clarke | Feb 3, 2016 | |
| D-CA | Grace F. Napolitano | Feb 10, 2016 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Feb 10, 2016 | |
| D-FL | Kathy Castor | Feb 10, 2016 | |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Mar 23, 2016 | |
| D-NY | Eliot L. Engel | May 10, 2016 | |
| D-CA | Lois Capps | May 24, 2016 | |
| D-MO | Emanuel Cleaver | May 25, 2016 | |
| D-CT | Joe Courtney | May 25, 2016 | |
| D-MN | Keith Ellison | May 25, 2016 | |
| D-MA | Michael E. Capuano | May 25, 2016 | |
| D-CA | Mike Thompson | May 25, 2016 | |
| D-MA | Niki Tsongas | May 25, 2016 | |
| D-OH | Tim Ryan | May 25, 2016 | |
| D-MA | William R. Keating | May 25, 2016 | |
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | May 27, 2016 | |
| D-NY | Nydia M. Velázquez | May 27, 2016 | |
| D-MA | Richard E. Neal | May 27, 2016 | |
| D-FL | Alan Grayson | Jun 8, 2016 | |
| D-NY | Brian Higgins | Jun 8, 2016 | |
| D-TX | Lloyd Doggett | Jun 8, 2016 | |
| D-CA | Loretta Sanchez | Jun 8, 2016 | |
| D-MA | Stephen F. Lynch | Jun 8, 2016 | |
| D-CA | Mark Takano | Jun 14, 2016 | |
| D-CA | Pete Aguilar | Jun 14, 2016 | |
| D-CO | Jared Polis | Jul 5, 2016 | |
| D-OR | Suzanne Bonamici | Sep 6, 2016 |
Committees 5
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Feb 2, 2016 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Feb 5, 2016 | |
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Feb 2, 2016 |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Feb 2, 2016 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Feb 10, 2016 | |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Feb 2, 2016 |
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Feb 2, 2016 |
| Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee | Referred Feb 10, 2016 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 10, 2016Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Feb 10, 2016Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
- Feb 5, 2016Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Feb 2, 2016Introduced in House
- Feb 2, 2016Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 162, no. 19, February 2, 2016, page H496.
Related bills 21
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 711 | Mental Health First Act of 2015 | Related bill | Mar 11, 2015 |
| HR 1211 | Mental Health in Schools Act of 2015 | Related bill | Mar 6, 2015 |
| S 1455 | TREAT Act | Related bill | Apr 27, 2016 |
| S 1588 | Mental Health in Schools Act of 2015 | Related bill | Jun 16, 2015 |
| HR 1877 | Mental Health First Aid Act of 2016 | Related bill | Sep 27, 2016 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To improve access to mental health and substance use disorder prevention, treatment, crisis, and recovery services.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Comprehensive Behavioral Health Reform and Recovery Act of 2016
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Accounting and auditing
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Administrative remedies
- Advisory bodies
- Aging
- Child health
- Civil actions and liability
- Community life and organization
- Congressional oversight
- Correctional facilities and imprisonment
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Labor
- Department of the Treasury
- Disability and health-based discrimination
- Drug therapy
- Drug trafficking and controlled substances
- Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
- Education programs funding
- Elementary and secondary education
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Employee benefits and pensions
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Family services
- Government information and archives
- Government liability
- Government studies and investigations
- Health
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health care quality
- Health facilities and institutions
- Health information and medical records
- Health personnel
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Higher education
- Home and outpatient care
- Homelessness and emergency shelter
- Hospital care
- Indian social and development programs
- Juvenile crime and gang violence
- Lawyers and legal services
- Licensing and registrations
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Medicaid
- Medical education
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Medicare
- Mental health
- Minority health
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Neurological disorders
- Nursing
- Prescription drugs
- Research administration and funding
- Right of privacy
- Rural conditions and development
- School administration
- Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
- Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
- State and local government operations
- Student aid and college costs
- Teaching, teachers, curricula
- Violent crime
- Women's health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 2, 2016Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
