Union Calendar No. 442
116th CONGRESS 2d Session |
[Report No. 116–542]
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide best practices on student suicide awareness and prevention training and condition State educational agencies, local educational agencies, and tribal educational agencies receiving funds under section 520A of such Act to establish and implement a school-based student suicide awareness and prevention training policy.
June 22, 2020
Mr. Peters (for himself, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Deutch, and Mr. Fitzpatrick) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
September 29, 2020
Additional sponsors: Ms. Wild, Mr. Katko, Mr. Soto, Mrs. Davis of California, Mrs. Murphy of Florida, Ms. Kuster of New Hampshire, Mr. Vargas, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. Neguse, Miss Rice of New York, Mr. Rouda, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Ms. Brownley of California, Mr. Trone, Mr. Ryan, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Upton, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Mr. Harder of California, Mr. Tonko, Mrs. Demings, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Crist, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Van Drew, Ms. Velázquez, Mr. Luján, Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. Dean, Mr. San Nicolas, Mr. Rose of New York, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, and Mr. Lipinski
September 29, 2020
Reported with an amendment; committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on June 22, 2020]
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide best practices on student suicide awareness and prevention training and condition State educational agencies, local educational agencies, and tribal educational agencies receiving funds under section 520A of such Act to establish and implement a school-based student suicide awareness and prevention training policy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the “Suicide Training and Awareness Nationally Delivered for Universal Prevention Act of 2020” or the “STANDUP Act of 2020”.
SEC. 2. Student suicide awareness and prevention training.
(a) In general.—Title V of the Public Health Service Act is amended by inserting after section 520A of such Act (42 U.S.C. 290bb–32) the following:
“SEC. 520B. Student suicide awareness and prevention training policies.
“(a) In general.—As a condition on receipt of funds under section 520A, each State educational agency, local educational agency, and Tribal educational agency that receives such funds, directly or through a State or Indian Tribe, for activities to be performed within secondary schools, including the Project AWARE State Education Agency Grant Program, shall—
“(1) establish and implement a school-based student suicide awareness and prevention training policy;
“(b) School-Based student suicide awareness and prevention training policy.—A school-based student suicide awareness and prevention training policy implemented pursuant to subsection (a)—
“(3) shall provide evidence-based training to students in grades 6 through 12, in coordination with school-based mental health service providers as defined in section 4102(6) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, if applicable, regarding—
“(5) may last for such period as the State educational agency, local educational agency, or Tribal educational agency involved determines to be appropriate;
“(c) Collection of information and reporting.—Each State educational agency, local educational agency, and Tribal educational agency that receives funds under section 520A shall, with respect to each school served by the agency, collect and report to the Secretary the following information:
“(d) Evidence-Based program listing.—The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall coordinate with the Secretary of Education to make publicly available the policies established by State educational agencies, local educational agencies, and Tribal educational agencies pursuant to this section and the training that is available to students and teams pursuant to such policies, including identification of whether such training is available to trainees at no cost.
“(e) Implementation timeline.—A State educational agency, local educational agency, or Tribal educational agency shall establish and begin implementation of the policies required by subsection (a)(1) not later than the beginning of the third fiscal year following the date of enactment of this section for which the agency receives funds under section 520A.
“(f) Definitions.—In this section and section 520B–1:
“(1) The term ‘evidence-based’ has the meaning given to such term in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
“(2) The term ‘local educational agency’ has the meaning given to such term in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
“SEC. 520B–1. Best practices for student suicide awareness and prevention training.
“The Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Secretary of Education and the Bureau of Indian Education, shall—
“(1) publish best practices for school-based student suicide awareness and prevention training, pursuant to section 520B, that are based on—
“(2) publish guidance, based on the best practices under paragraph (1), to provide State educational agencies, local educational agencies, and Tribal educational agencies with information on student suicide awareness and prevention best practices;
The amendments made by this Act shall only apply with respect to applications for assistance under section 520A of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290bb–32) that are submitted after the date of enactment of this Act.
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To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide best practices on student suicide awareness and prevention training and condition State educational agencies, local educational agencies, and tribal educational agencies receiving funds under section 520A of such Act to establish and implement a school-based student suicide awareness and prevention training policy. | |||||
September 29, 2020 | |||||
Reported with an amendment; committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed |