“To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to promote comprehensive campus mental health and suicide prevention plans, and for other purposes.”
No CRS summary available for this bill.
This section directs the Secretary of Education to encourage institutions of higher education to develop and implement evidence-based comprehensive campus mental health and suicide prevention plans. The efforts must be coordinated with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, align with the Suicide Prevention Resource Center and specified programs under the 21st Century Cures Act and Public Health Service Act, and consider existing federal and state initiatives. The Secretary must report to the House Committee on Education and Workforce and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions one year and three years after enactment, and the section creates no new statutory requirements for institutions or regulatory authority for the Secretary.