Bill Sponsor
BILLSPONSOR
Bill Sponsor
Politicians
Bills
House Bill 4543
116th Congress(2019-2020)
Reducing Mental Health Stigma in the Hispanic Community Act of 2019
Introduced
Introduced
Introduced in House on Sep 27, 2019
Overview
Text
Introduced in House 
Sep 27, 2019
Not Scanned for Linkage
About Linkage
Multiple bills can contain the same text. This could be an identical bill in the opposite chamber or a smaller bill with a section embedded in a larger bill.
Bill Sponsor regularly scans bill texts to find sections that are contained in other bill texts. When a matching section is found, the bills containing that section can be viewed by clicking "View Bills" within the bill text section.
Bill Sponsor is currently only finding exact word-for-word section matches. In a future release, partial matches will be included.
Introduced in House(Sep 27, 2019)
Sep 27, 2019
Not Scanned for Linkage
About Linkage
Multiple bills can contain the same text. This could be an identical bill in the opposite chamber or a smaller bill with a section embedded in a larger bill.
Bill Sponsor regularly scans bill texts to find sections that are contained in other bill texts. When a matching section is found, the bills containing that section can be viewed by clicking "View Bills" within the bill text section.
Bill Sponsor is currently only finding exact word-for-word section matches. In a future release, partial matches will be included.
Jump To
H. R. 4543 (Introduced-in-House)


116th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 4543


To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a behavioral and mental health outreach and education strategy to reduce stigma associated with mental health among the Hispanic and Latino population, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

September 27, 2019

Mrs. Napolitano (for herself, Mr. Castro of Texas, Ms. Mucarsel-Powell, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Cisneros, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mr. Soto, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. Correa, Mr. Vargas, Ms. Escobar, Mr. Cárdenas, Ms. Velázquez, Mr. Aguilar, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Ruiz, and Ms. Sánchez) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

A BILL

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a behavioral and mental health outreach and education strategy to reduce stigma associated with mental health among the Hispanic and Latino population, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Reducing Mental Health Stigma in the Hispanic Community Act of 2019”.

SEC. 2. Hispanic and Latino behavioral and mental health outreach and education strategy.

Part D of title V of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290dd et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

“SEC. 553. Behavioral and mental health outreach and education strategy.

“(a) In general.—The Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary, shall, in coordination with advocacy and behavioral and mental health organizations serving populations of Hispanic and Latino individuals or communities, develop and implement an outreach and education strategy to promote behavioral and mental health and reduce stigma associated with mental health conditions and substance abuse among the Hispanic and Latino populations. Such strategy shall—

“(1) be designed to—

“(A) meet the diverse cultural and language needs of the various Hispanic and Latino populations; and

“(B) be developmentally and age-appropriate;

“(2) increase awareness of symptoms of mental illnesses common among such populations, taking into account differences within subgroups, such as gender, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, or ethnicity, of such populations;

“(3) provide information on evidence-based, culturally and linguistically appropriate and adapted interventions and treatments;

“(4) ensure full participation of, and engage, both consumers and community members in the development and implementation of materials; and

“(5) seek to broaden the perspective among both individuals in these communities and stakeholders serving these communities to use a comprehensive public health approach to promoting behavioral health that addresses a holistic view of health by focusing on the intersection between behavioral and physical health.

“(b) Reports.—Beginning not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this section and annually thereafter, the Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary, shall submit to Congress, and make publicly available, a report on the extent to which the strategy developed and implemented under subsection (a) increased behavioral and mental health outcomes associated with mental health conditions and substance abuse among Hispanic and Latino populations.

“(c) Authorization of appropriations.—There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $1,000,000 for fiscal year 2020.”.