H.R. 10712

First Responder Behavioral Health Access Act

Sponsor: Suhas Subramanyam

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Sec. 2. Including certain emergency response providers as eligible institutions under mental and behavioral health education and training program

Section 756 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 294e–1) is amended—

(1) in subsection (a), in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking of the students and inserting of the students, and in the case of an eligible institution that is a qualified emergency response provider, to support the field placement and recruitment of clinicians or behavioral health service providers in qualified emergency response providers,;

(2) by redesignating subsection (f) as subsection (g); and

(3) by inserting after subsection (e) the following:

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(f) Definitions. In this section:

(1) Eligible institution. The term eligible institution includes a qualified emergency response provider.

(2) Public safety telecommunicator. The term public safety telecommunicator means a public safety telecommunicator as designated in detailed occupation 43–5031 in the Standard Occupational Classification Manual of the Office of Management and Budget issued in 2018, or any successor designation.

(3) Qualified emergency response provider. The term qualified emergency response provider means—

(A) an emergency response provider (as defined in section 2 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101)); and

(B) a public safety telecommunicator.