US Congress House Bill 4349 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-01-08 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Coordinating Crisis Care Act This bill requires the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to award grants to states for real-time, Internet-based bed registries that provide information about beds in inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis stabilization units, residential community mental health treatment facilities, and residential substance abuse treatment facilities to facilitate the identification of space for the temporary treatment of an individual in psychiatric or substance abuse crisis. A bed registry must: (1) describe and provide contact information for every relevant facility in the state; (2) provide real-time information about the number of beds available at each facility and, for each available bed, provide the type of patient that may be admitted, the level of security provided, and any other information that may be necessary to identify an appropriate facility for an individual in crisis; and (3) allow specified users to search the registry for an appropriate and available bed for an individual in crisis.

Coordinating Crisis Care Act

Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-01-08	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2016-01-07	House	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
2016-01-07	House	Introduced in House

HB4435 (Related) 2016-02-10 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4349/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr4349/BILLS-114hr4349ih.pdf