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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1392 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To provide funding to the Bureau of Prisons, States, and localities to carry |
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| 6 | 6 | | out mental health screenings and provide referrals to mental healthcare |
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| 7 | 7 | | providers for individuals in prison or jail. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | FEBRUARY14, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Ms. S |
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| 11 | 11 | | HERRILLintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 12 | 12 | | Committee on the Judiciary |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To provide funding to the Bureau of Prisons, States, and |
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| 15 | 15 | | localities to carry out mental health screenings and pro- |
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| 16 | 16 | | vide referrals to mental healthcare providers for individ- |
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| 17 | 17 | | uals in prison or jail. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Improving Mental 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | Healthcare in the Re-Entry System Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 23 | 23 | | SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM. 6 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (a) E |
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| 25 | 25 | | STABLISHMENT.—Not later than 90 days after 7 |
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| 26 | 26 | | the date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney Gen-8 |
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| 30 | 30 | | eral shall establish a grant program (hereinafter referred 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | to as the ‘‘Program’’) to implement and administer mental 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | health screenings to individuals at intake into an eligible 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | detention center and refer such individuals to mental 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | healthcare providers before or immediately after exit from 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | an eligible detention center, as applicable. 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (b) G |
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| 37 | 37 | | RANTAUTHORITY.—In carrying out the Pro-7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | gram, the Attorney General may award a grant on a com-8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | petitive basis to an eligible recipient in accordance with 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | this section. 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (c) A |
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| 42 | 42 | | PPLICATION.—The Attorney General may award 11 |
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| 43 | 43 | | a grant under the Program to a State or locality, deter-12 |
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| 44 | 44 | | mined by the Attorney General to carry out a project de-13 |
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| 45 | 45 | | scribed in subsection (d). 14 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (d) E |
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| 47 | 47 | | LIGIBLERECIPIENTS.— 15 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (1) H |
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| 49 | 49 | | IRING REQUIREMENT .—To be eligible for 16 |
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| 50 | 50 | | a grant under the Program, a State or locality shall 17 |
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| 51 | 51 | | hire a mental health liaison staff member for each 18 |
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| 52 | 52 | | eligible detention center under its jurisdiction. If an 19 |
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| 53 | 53 | | eligible detention center has a small enough popu-20 |
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| 54 | 54 | | lation, subject to approval by the Advisory Board, 21 |
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| 55 | 55 | | one mental health liaison staff member may cover 22 |
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| 56 | 56 | | multiple detention centers. The mental health liaison 23 |
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| 57 | 57 | | staff member shall be responsible for— 24 |
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| 61 | 61 | | (A) coordinating efforts between the prison 1 |
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| 62 | 62 | | or jail and mental health providers in the local 2 |
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| 63 | 63 | | region to help individuals currently or formerly 3 |
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| 64 | 64 | | in prison or jail access mental healthcare; 4 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (B) coordinating with the Advisory Board 5 |
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| 66 | 66 | | to ensure that the Program is operating in ac-6 |
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| 67 | 67 | | cordance with this section; and 7 |
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| 68 | 68 | | (C) overseeing and coordinating activities 8 |
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| 69 | 69 | | of the outreach team (as described in subsection 9 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (g)). 10 |
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| 71 | 71 | | (2) P |
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| 72 | 72 | | LAN.—To be eligible for a grant under the 11 |
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| 73 | 73 | | Program, a State or locality shall submit a plan to 12 |
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| 74 | 74 | | the Advisory Board explaining how the Program es-13 |
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| 75 | 75 | | tablished shall meet the criteria under subsection 14 |
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| 76 | 76 | | (e). 15 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (3) R |
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| 78 | 78 | | ELEVANT DATA.—To be eligible for a 16 |
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| 79 | 79 | | grant under the Program, a State or locality shall 17 |
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| 80 | 80 | | partner with the Advisory Board and an independent 18 |
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| 81 | 81 | | research organization to evaluate the impact of their 19 |
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| 82 | 82 | | program as a condition of receiving a grant, and are 20 |
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| 83 | 83 | | also required to share relevant data with the Advi-21 |
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| 84 | 84 | | sory Board and the research organization contracted 22 |
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| 85 | 85 | | with by the Attorney General as specified by section 23 |
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| 86 | 86 | | 5(a) regarding individuals’ participation in the men-24 |
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| 90 | 90 | | tal health screen and referral program and their ar-1 |
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| 91 | 91 | | rest, arraignment, and incarceration rates. 2 |
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| 92 | 92 | | (e) E |
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| 93 | 93 | | LIGIBLEPROJECTS.—Grant funds awarded 3 |
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| 94 | 94 | | under the Program may only be used to: 4 |
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| 95 | 95 | | (1) Develop and administer a brief mental 5 |
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| 96 | 96 | | health screening survey as required under subsection 6 |
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| 97 | 97 | | (f). 7 |
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| 98 | 98 | | (2) Develop any technology necessary for a pris-8 |
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| 99 | 99 | | on or jail to provide the survey under paragraph (1). 9 |
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| 100 | 100 | | (3) Hire any staff necessary for a prison or jail 10 |
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| 101 | 101 | | to provide the survey under paragraph (1). 11 |
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| 102 | 102 | | (4) Establish an outreach team pursuant to 12 |
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| 103 | 103 | | subsection (g) to refer an individual, if their re-13 |
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| 104 | 104 | | sponses to the survey indicate severe mental illness, 14 |
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| 105 | 105 | | to a local mental healthcare provider for further as-15 |
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| 106 | 106 | | sessment and outreach, admission (when necessary), 16 |
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| 107 | 107 | | and support for that individual in re-establishing ties 17 |
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| 108 | 108 | | with a mental health provider. 18 |
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| 109 | 109 | | (5) Pay the salary or overtime pay of an out-19 |
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| 110 | 110 | | reach team as established pursuant to subsection 20 |
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| 111 | 111 | | (g), including providing direct funding to a prison, 21 |
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| 112 | 112 | | jail, or mental health center to compensate staff 22 |
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| 113 | 113 | | members. 23 |
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| 117 | 117 | | (f) BRIEFMENTALHEALTHSCREENINGSURVEY.— 1 |
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| 118 | 118 | | The mental health screening survey developed and admin-2 |
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| 119 | 119 | | istered under subsection (e) shall: 3 |
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| 120 | 120 | | (1) Be composed of 5 to 10 questions. 4 |
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| 121 | 121 | | (2) Be based on the questions and content of 5 |
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| 122 | 122 | | the Brief Jail Mental Health Screen (BJMHS). 6 |
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| 123 | 123 | | (3) Seek to identify severe mental illnesses, in-7 |
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| 124 | 124 | | cluding schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major 8 |
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| 125 | 125 | | depression. 9 |
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| 126 | 126 | | (4) Ask individuals about the symptoms of se-10 |
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| 127 | 127 | | vere mental illness they may be experiencing or have 11 |
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| 128 | 128 | | experienced and any prior use of mental health-re-12 |
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| 129 | 129 | | lated medications or inpatient care. 13 |
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| 130 | 130 | | (5) Identify the individual’s place of residence. 14 |
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| 131 | 131 | | (6) Be administered by a trained staff member 15 |
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| 132 | 132 | | at the jail or prison to all entering individuals who 16 |
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| 133 | 133 | | are incarcerated in the jail or prison and to all in-17 |
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| 134 | 134 | | carcerated individuals who entered the jail or prison 18 |
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| 135 | 135 | | before the survey was implemented. 19 |
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| 136 | 136 | | (g) O |
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| 137 | 137 | | UTREACHTEAM.— 20 |
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| 138 | 138 | | (1) I |
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| 139 | 139 | | N GENERAL.—A referral to a mental 21 |
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| 140 | 140 | | healthcare provider, as described in subsection (e), 22 |
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| 141 | 141 | | shall be made by a mental health outreach team that 23 |
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| 142 | 142 | | is composed of— 24 |
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| 146 | 146 | | (A) mental healthcare professionals and 1 |
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| 147 | 147 | | clinicians from mental healthcare centers local 2 |
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| 148 | 148 | | to the prison or jail; 3 |
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| 149 | 149 | | (B) staff from the jail or prison, when ap-4 |
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| 150 | 150 | | plicable; and 5 |
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| 151 | 151 | | (C) a mental health liaison staff member 6 |
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| 152 | 152 | | who shall oversee the outreach team. 7 |
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| 153 | 153 | | (2) A |
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| 154 | 154 | | LERT.—If an individual has been deter-8 |
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| 155 | 155 | | mined to need a referral to a mental healthcare pro-9 |
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| 156 | 156 | | vider, the mental health outreach team shall be noti-10 |
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| 157 | 157 | | fied immediately by jail or prison staff and in-11 |
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| 158 | 158 | | formed, when applicable, of the individual’s release 12 |
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| 159 | 159 | | date from such jail or prison and the individual’s 13 |
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| 160 | 160 | | trial date. 14 |
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| 161 | 161 | | (3) C |
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| 162 | 162 | | ONTACT ATTEMPTS REQUIRED .— 15 |
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| 163 | 163 | | (A) I |
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| 164 | 164 | | N GENERAL.—A mental health out-16 |
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| 165 | 165 | | reach team member shall first attempt to con-17 |
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| 166 | 166 | | tact an individual that has been determined to 18 |
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| 167 | 167 | | need a referral to a mental healthcare provider 19 |
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| 168 | 168 | | in person at the jail or prison, before such indi-20 |
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| 169 | 169 | | vidual is released. If in person contact was not 21 |
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| 170 | 170 | | made before such individual was released from 22 |
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| 171 | 171 | | prison or jail, the outreach team member shall 23 |
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| 172 | 172 | | attempt to contact via telephone such individual 24 |
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| 173 | 173 | | within 24 hours, and at the latest within 48 25 |
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| 177 | 177 | | hours, of their release from jail or prison for 1 |
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| 178 | 178 | | the purpose of making the mental health refer-2 |
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| 179 | 179 | | ral. The mental health outreach team member 3 |
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| 180 | 180 | | shall not need to contact the individual via tele-4 |
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| 181 | 181 | | phone after release if such contact was made in 5 |
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| 182 | 182 | | person. 6 |
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| 183 | 183 | | (B) A |
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| 184 | 184 | | DDITIONAL CONTACTS .—A mental 7 |
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| 185 | 185 | | health outreach team member shall make at 8 |
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| 186 | 186 | | least three attempts at telephone contact for 9 |
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| 187 | 187 | | each individual that has been determined to 10 |
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| 188 | 188 | | need a referral to a mental healthcare provider 11 |
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| 189 | 189 | | if in person contact before release was not 12 |
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| 190 | 190 | | made. If phone contact is unsuccessful, a men-13 |
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| 191 | 191 | | tal health outreach team member shall attempt 14 |
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| 192 | 192 | | to contact the individual in person at their 15 |
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| 193 | 193 | | place of residence, as provided on the mental 16 |
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| 194 | 194 | | health survey. 17 |
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| 195 | 195 | | SEC. 3. BUREAU OF PRISONS. 18 |
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| 196 | 196 | | Not later than 90 days after the date of the enact-19 |
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| 197 | 197 | | ment of this Act, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons 20 |
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| 198 | 198 | | shall establish a program that is substantially similar to 21 |
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| 199 | 199 | | the Program established under section 2 to implement and 22 |
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| 200 | 200 | | administer mental health screenings to individuals at in-23 |
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| 201 | 201 | | take into an eligible detention center and refer such indi-24 |
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| 202 | 202 | | viduals to mental healthcare providers before or imme-25 |
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| 207 | 207 | | plicable. 2 |
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| 208 | 208 | | SEC. 4. ADVISORY BOARD ON PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION. 3 |
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| 209 | 209 | | (a) E |
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| 210 | 210 | | STABLISHMENT.—Not later than 60 days after 4 |
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| 211 | 211 | | the date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney Gen-5 |
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| 212 | 212 | | eral shall establish an Advisory Board to manage and ad-6 |
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| 213 | 213 | | minister the Program under section 2, with the responsi-7 |
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| 214 | 214 | | bility to: 8 |
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| 215 | 215 | | (1) Evaluate and approve the plans submitted 9 |
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| 216 | 216 | | by a State or locality as required under section 2 10 |
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| 217 | 217 | | and to ensure that grant funding is used as specified 11 |
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| 218 | 218 | | under section 2. 12 |
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| 219 | 219 | | (2) Monitor plans submitted by the Bureau of 13 |
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| 220 | 220 | | Prisons and advise the Attorney General on compli-14 |
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| 221 | 221 | | ance to ensure that funding to the Bureau of Pris-15 |
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| 222 | 222 | | ons is used as specified under section 2. 16 |
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| 223 | 223 | | (3) Provide technical assistance to a State or 17 |
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| 224 | 224 | | locality to help with the implementation and admin-18 |
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| 225 | 225 | | istration of mental health screening and referral pro-19 |
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| 226 | 226 | | grams that maximize impact on reducing crime rates 20 |
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| 227 | 227 | | and improving employment and wage rates for indi-21 |
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| 228 | 228 | | viduals released from prison or jail, and to assist a 22 |
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| 229 | 229 | | State or locality’s coordination with the Attorney 23 |
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| 230 | 230 | | General in implementing the Program. 24 |
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| 234 | 234 | | (4) Publish a database of completed evaluations 1 |
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| 235 | 235 | | of the impact of a Program, as specified under sec-2 |
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| 236 | 236 | | tion 5. 3 |
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| 237 | 237 | | (5) Create a working group of mental 4 |
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| 238 | 238 | | healthcare providers, jail and prison administrators, 5 |
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| 239 | 239 | | law enforcement officials, and operators of existing 6 |
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| 240 | 240 | | mental health screening and referral programs, as of 7 |
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| 241 | 241 | | the creation of the working group, to share best 8 |
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| 242 | 242 | | practices on how to create and implement mental 9 |
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| 243 | 243 | | health screening and referral programs that have the 10 |
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| 244 | 244 | | largest impact on reducing crime rates and improv-11 |
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| 245 | 245 | | ing employment and wage rates for individuals re-12 |
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| 246 | 246 | | leased from prison or jail. 13 |
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| 247 | 247 | | (6) Work in coordination with mental health 14 |
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| 248 | 248 | | outreach teams as established under section 2, to en-15 |
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| 249 | 249 | | sure that the Program is operating as required. 16 |
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| 250 | 250 | | (7) Determine if a grant awarded by the Pro-17 |
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| 251 | 251 | | gram is not meeting the requirements of the Pro-18 |
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| 252 | 252 | | gram and mandate necessary changes and reduce 19 |
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| 253 | 253 | | funding if such changes are not made. 20 |
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| 254 | 254 | | (8) Oversee the completion of required program 21 |
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| 255 | 255 | | evaluations as described under section 5, by— 22 |
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| 256 | 256 | | (A) contracting with one or more inde-23 |
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| 257 | 257 | | pendent research organizations to carry out an 24 |
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| 258 | 258 | | evaluation of the impact of each grant awarded 25 |
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| 262 | 262 | | under the Program on arrest, arraignment, and 1 |
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| 263 | 263 | | incarceration rates, employment and wage 2 |
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| 264 | 264 | | rates, and mental healthcare utilization rates of 3 |
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| 265 | 265 | | individuals who have been administered mental 4 |
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| 266 | 266 | | health screening; and 5 |
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| 267 | 267 | | (B) working with the Bureau of Prisons, 6 |
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| 268 | 268 | | States, and localities to ensure that the evalua-7 |
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| 269 | 269 | | tion is successfully completed. 8 |
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| 270 | 270 | | (b) T |
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| 271 | 271 | | ECHNICALASSISTANCE.—The Advisory Board 9 |
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| 272 | 272 | | shall provide technical assistance to the Bureau of Pris-10 |
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| 273 | 273 | | ons, States, and localities in setting up and administering 11 |
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| 274 | 274 | | the Program and shall identify evidence-backed models for 12 |
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| 275 | 275 | | the administration of mental health screening and referral 13 |
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| 276 | 276 | | programs that the Bureau of Prisons, States, and local-14 |
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| 277 | 277 | | ities can look to when designing their own programs. 15 |
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| 278 | 278 | | (c) P |
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| 279 | 279 | | ROCESSEVALUATIONACTIVITIES.—Not later 16 |
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| 280 | 280 | | than one year after the Program begins, the Advisory 17 |
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| 281 | 281 | | Board shall conduct a process evaluation for a grant 18 |
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| 282 | 282 | | awarded under the Program, in which the implementation 19 |
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| 283 | 283 | | of the surveys and referrals in each prison or jail is mon-20 |
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| 284 | 284 | | itored and evaluated to ensure that they are being carried 21 |
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| 285 | 285 | | out as specified in the plan submitted to the Advisory 22 |
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| 286 | 286 | | Board. 23 |
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| 287 | 287 | | (d) M |
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| 292 | 292 | | (1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall 1 |
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| 293 | 293 | | appoint members to serve on the Advisory Board es-2 |
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| 294 | 294 | | tablished under subsection (a) who have expertise 3 |
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| 295 | 295 | | with respect to— 4 |
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| 296 | 296 | | (A) designing and administering mental 5 |
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| 297 | 297 | | health screenings and providing referrals for 6 |
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| 298 | 298 | | those incarcerated in prisons or jails, or for 7 |
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| 299 | 299 | | those who have recently left such facilities; 8 |
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| 300 | 300 | | (B) mental healthcare within prisons or 9 |
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| 301 | 301 | | jails; or 10 |
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| 302 | 302 | | (C) program evaluation using rigorous ex-11 |
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| 303 | 303 | | perimental and quasi-experimental statistical 12 |
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| 304 | 304 | | methods. 13 |
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| 305 | 305 | | (2) N |
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| 306 | 306 | | UMBER OF MEMBERS .—The Attorney 14 |
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| 307 | 307 | | General shall appoint as many members to the Advi-15 |
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| 308 | 308 | | sory Board established under subsection (a) as 16 |
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| 309 | 309 | | deemed necessary by the Attorney General. 17 |
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| 310 | 310 | | SEC. 5. EVALUATION ACTIVITIES. 18 |
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| 311 | 311 | | (a) I |
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| 312 | 312 | | NDEPENDENT RESEARCHORGANIZATIONS.— 19 |
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| 313 | 313 | | The Attorney General shall provide funding directly to the 20 |
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| 314 | 314 | | Advisory Board for the purpose of contracting with one 21 |
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| 315 | 315 | | or more independent research organizations, in partner-22 |
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| 316 | 316 | | ship with the Bureau of Prisons, States, and localities, to 23 |
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| 317 | 317 | | carry out an evaluation to determine whether each grant 24 |
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| 321 | 321 | | awarded under the Program is being implemented effec-1 |
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| 322 | 322 | | tively and to measure the impact of such programs. 2 |
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| 323 | 323 | | (b) I |
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| 324 | 324 | | MPACTEVALUATIONACTIVITIES.— 3 |
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| 325 | 325 | | (1) I |
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| 326 | 326 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than one year 4 |
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| 327 | 327 | | after a recipient of a grant awarded under the Pro-5 |
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| 328 | 328 | | gram receives an award they shall conduct an im-6 |
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| 329 | 329 | | pact evaluation for its program, in which the surveys 7 |
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| 330 | 330 | | and referrals in each prison or jail will be evaluated 8 |
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| 331 | 331 | | for their effect on the criminal justice and economic 9 |
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| 332 | 332 | | outcomes of individuals who receive the survey. Such 10 |
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| 333 | 333 | | impact evaluation shall be conducted by an inde-11 |
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| 334 | 334 | | pendent research organization, with oversight from 12 |
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| 335 | 335 | | the Advisory Board and include an analysis of the 13 |
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| 336 | 336 | | impact of the survey and referral on participant 14 |
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| 337 | 337 | | crime rates, including arrest, arraignment, and in-15 |
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| 338 | 338 | | carceration rates, participant employment and wage 16 |
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| 339 | 339 | | rates, and participant mental healthcare utilization 17 |
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| 340 | 340 | | rates for one year, three years, five years, and ten 18 |
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| 341 | 341 | | years after the participant has completed the survey 19 |
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| 342 | 342 | | and referral program. These analyses will use ad-20 |
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| 343 | 343 | | ministrative data collected by each State’s depart-21 |
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| 344 | 344 | | ment of public safety, for the crime rate data, and 22 |
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| 345 | 345 | | each State’s Department of Labor, for the employ-23 |
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| 346 | 346 | | ment and wage rate data. States shall provide this 24 |
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| 347 | 347 | | data to the independent research organization. For 25 |
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| 352 | 352 | | health providers and, if necessary, from outreach to 2 |
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| 353 | 353 | | the individuals who participated in the survey and 3 |
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| 354 | 354 | | referral program shall be utilized. 4 |
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| 355 | 355 | | (2) E |
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| 356 | 356 | | XPERIMENTAL DESIGN .—Program impact 5 |
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| 357 | 357 | | evaluations under paragraph (1) shall use random-6 |
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| 358 | 358 | | ized control experimental or quasi-experimental re-7 |
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| 359 | 359 | | search designs. Randomized control experimental de-8 |
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| 360 | 360 | | signs are preferred and the Advisory Board will pro-9 |
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| 361 | 361 | | vide the independent research organization, in part-10 |
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| 362 | 362 | | nership with the Bureau of Prisons, State, or Local-11 |
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| 363 | 363 | | ity, additional resources to carry out a randomized 12 |
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| 364 | 364 | | control experimental evaluation. 13 |
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| 365 | 365 | | (c) D |
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| 366 | 366 | | ATABASE.—Once evaluations become available, 14 |
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| 367 | 367 | | the Advisory Board will be required to keep an updated 15 |
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| 368 | 368 | | database of the impact of programs funded under the 16 |
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| 369 | 369 | | grant program and how those programs were implemented 17 |
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| 370 | 370 | | and administered, with the goal of creating a repository 18 |
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| 371 | 371 | | of evidence regarding what drives impact on crime rates 19 |
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| 372 | 372 | | and employment and wage rates to guide policymakers 20 |
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| 373 | 373 | | and program operators in the future. 21 |
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| 374 | 374 | | SEC. 6. FUNDING. 22 |
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| 375 | 375 | | (a) A |
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| 376 | 376 | | UTHORIZATION.—There is authorized to be ap-23 |
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| 377 | 377 | | propriated to the Attorney General to carry out this Act— 24 |
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| 378 | 378 | | (1) $100,000,000 for fiscal year 2026; 25 |
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| 383 | 383 | | (3) $120,000,000 for fiscal year 2028; 2 |
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| 384 | 384 | | (4) $130,000,000 for fiscal year 2029; and 3 |
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| 385 | 385 | | (5) $140,000,000 for fiscal year 2030. 4 |
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| 386 | 386 | | (b) D |
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| 387 | 387 | | ISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS.—Of the amounts 5 |
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| 388 | 388 | | made available under subsection (a), the Attorney General 6 |
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| 389 | 389 | | shall use— 7 |
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| 390 | 390 | | (1) 90 percent of such amount for a grant pro-8 |
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| 391 | 391 | | gram under sections 2 and 3, as applicable, of 9 |
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| 392 | 392 | | which— 10 |
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| 393 | 393 | | (A) 20 percent shall go to the Bureau of 11 |
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| 394 | 394 | | Prisons for screening and referral implementa-12 |
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| 395 | 395 | | tion activities at Federal prisons; 13 |
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| 396 | 396 | | (B) 20 percent shall go to States as com-14 |
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| 397 | 397 | | petitive grants to carry out screening and refer-15 |
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| 398 | 398 | | ral implementation activities at State prisons; 16 |
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| 399 | 399 | | and 17 |
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| 400 | 400 | | (C) 50 percent shall go to localities as 18 |
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| 401 | 401 | | competitive grants to carry out screening and 19 |
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| 402 | 402 | | referral implementation activities at locally-ad-20 |
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| 403 | 403 | | ministered jails; 21 |
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| 404 | 404 | | (2) 5 percent of such amount to carry out eval-22 |
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| 405 | 405 | | uation activities under section 5; and 23 |
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| 406 | 406 | | (3) 5 percent of such amount for the Advisory 24 |
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| 407 | 407 | | Board to provide technical assistance to the Bureau 25 |
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| 412 | 412 | | erations as described in section 4. 2 |
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| 413 | 413 | | SEC. 7. DEFINITIONS. 3 |
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| 414 | 414 | | In this Act: 4 |
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| 415 | 415 | | (1) S |
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| 416 | 416 | | TATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means any 5 |
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| 417 | 417 | | State of the United States, the District of Columbia, 6 |
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| 418 | 418 | | the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Is-7 |
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| 419 | 419 | | lands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Common-8 |
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| 420 | 420 | | wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. 9 |
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| 421 | 421 | | (2) L |
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| 422 | 422 | | OCALITY.—The term ‘‘locality’’ means any 10 |
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| 423 | 423 | | city, county, township, town, borough, parish, vil-11 |
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| 424 | 424 | | lage, or other general purpose political subdivision of 12 |
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| 425 | 425 | | a State. 13 |
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| 426 | 426 | | (3) M |
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| 427 | 427 | | ENTAL HEALTHCARE PROVIDER .—The 14 |
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| 428 | 428 | | term ‘‘mental healthcare provider’’ means a fully-li-15 |
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| 429 | 429 | | censed professional or group of professionals who di-16 |
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| 430 | 430 | | agnose mental health conditions and provide mental 17 |
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| 431 | 431 | | health treatment, and who operate near to the rel-18 |
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| 432 | 432 | | evant jail or prison. Mental healthcare providers may 19 |
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| 433 | 433 | | provide services at hospitals or at private clinics. 20 |
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| 434 | 434 | | (4) M |
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| 435 | 435 | | ENTAL HEALTHCARE CENTER .—The term 21 |
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| 436 | 436 | | ‘‘mental healthcare center’’ means any facility where 22 |
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| 437 | 437 | | one or more mental healthcare providers offer men-23 |
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| 438 | 438 | | tal health services, such as a hospital or private clin-24 |
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| 439 | 439 | | ic. 25 |
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| 444 | 444 | | term ‘‘jail or prison administrator’’ means any indi-2 |
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| 445 | 445 | | vidual who has been appointed to a supervisory posi-3 |
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| 446 | 446 | | tion in a Federal, State, or local incarceration facil-4 |
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| 447 | 447 | | ity by the Federal Government, a State, or a local-5 |
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| 448 | 448 | | ity. 6 |
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| 449 | 449 | | (6) L |
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| 450 | 450 | | AW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL .—The term 7 |
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| 451 | 451 | | ‘‘law enforcement official’’ means any officer of an 8 |
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| 452 | 452 | | entity administered by a locality, State, or the Fed-9 |
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| 453 | 453 | | eral Government that exists primarily to prevent and 10 |
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| 454 | 454 | | detect crime and enforce criminal laws who is des-11 |
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| 455 | 455 | | ignated by the leadership of that entity to represent 12 |
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| 456 | 456 | | the entity. 13 |
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| 457 | 457 | | (7) E |
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| 458 | 458 | | LIGIBLE DETENTION CENTER .—The term 14 |
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| 459 | 459 | | ‘‘eligible detention center’’ means any prison or jail 15 |
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| 460 | 460 | | administered by the Bureau of Prisons or a State or 16 |
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| 461 | 461 | | any jail administered by a State or locality. 17 |
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| 462 | 462 | | (8) S |
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| 463 | 463 | | EVERE MENTAL ILLNESS .—The term ‘‘se-18 |
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| 464 | 464 | | vere mental illness’’ means one or more mental, be-19 |
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| 465 | 465 | | havioral, or emotional disorders that results in seri-20 |
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| 466 | 466 | | ous functional impairment and substantially inter-21 |
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| 467 | 467 | | feres with or limits major life activities. 22 |
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| 468 | 468 | | (9) I |
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| 469 | 469 | | NDEPENDENT RESEARCH ORGANIZA -23 |
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| 476 | 476 | | quality and rigorous experimental and quasi-experi-2 |
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| 477 | 477 | | mental evaluations. 3 |
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| 478 | 478 | | (10) R |
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| 479 | 479 | | ANDOMIZED CONTROL EXPERIMENTAL 4 |
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| 480 | 480 | | RESEARCH DESIGN.—The term ‘‘randomized control 5 |
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| 481 | 481 | | experimental research design’’ means a study design 6 |
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| 482 | 482 | | that utilizes a randomized control trial methodology 7 |
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| 483 | 483 | | to determine the impact of the program on partici-8 |
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| 484 | 484 | | pants, by comparing program outcomes between a 9 |
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| 485 | 485 | | randomly assigned sample population that has re-10 |
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| 486 | 486 | | ceived the survey and referral and a randomly as-11 |
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| 487 | 487 | | signed control population that has not received the 12 |
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| 488 | 488 | | survey and referral. 13 |
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| 489 | 489 | | (11) R |
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| 490 | 490 | | ESPONSES TO THE SURVEY INDICATE SE -14 |
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| 491 | 491 | | VERE MENTAL ILLNESS .—The term ‘‘responses to 15 |
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| 492 | 492 | | the survey indicate severe mental illness’’ means an 16 |
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| 493 | 493 | | individual answer’s ‘‘yes’’ to multiple questions with 17 |
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| 494 | 494 | | respect to the symptoms of a severe mental illness 18 |
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| 495 | 495 | | or to any question relating to prior use of a mental 19 |
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| 496 | 496 | | health-related medication or inpatient care related to 20 |
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| 497 | 497 | | a mental illness. 21 |
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| 498 | 498 | | (12) Q |
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| 499 | 499 | | UASI-EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH DE -22 |
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| 500 | 500 | | SIGN.—The term ‘‘quasi-experimental research de-23 |
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| 501 | 501 | | sign’’ means a study design that utilizes a non-ran-24 |
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| 507 | 507 | | paring program outcomes between a non-randomly 2 |
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| 508 | 508 | | assigned sample population that has received the 3 |
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| 509 | 509 | | survey and referral and a non-randomly assigned 4 |
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| 510 | 510 | | control population that is constructed to be statis-5 |
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| 511 | 511 | | tically identical to the sample population but without 6 |
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| 512 | 512 | | having received the survey and referral. 7 |
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