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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2502
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to
authorize a grant program for law enforcement agencies and corrections
agencies to obtain behavioral health crisis response training for law
enforcement officers and corrections officers, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH31, 2025
Ms. K
APTUR(for herself, Mr. CARTERof Louisiana, Ms. TITUS, Mr. EVANS
of Pennsylvania, Mr. C
ASTEN, and Ms. BROWNLEY) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets
Act of 1968 to authorize a grant program for law en-
forcement agencies and corrections agencies to obtain
behavioral health crisis response training for law enforce-
ment officers and corrections officers, and for other pur-
poses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Law Enforcement 4
Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act of 2025’’. 5
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSE. 1
(a) F
INDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 2
(1) Law enforcement and corrections officers 3
routinely respond to emergencies involving individ-4
uals suffering from a mental health crisis. 5
(2) Recent statistics have shown that as many 6
as— 7
(A) 1 in every 10 calls for police response 8
involve a person suffering from a mental illness; 9
(B) 1 in every 4 people killed by police suf-10
fer from a mental health problem; and 11
(C) 1 in 3 people transported to a hospital 12
emergency room for psychiatric reasons are 13
taken by the police. 14
(3) Law enforcement response calls to individ-15
uals suffering from substance use disorder have in-16
creased during the current opioid epidemic. 17
(4) There is a need to ensure that law enforce-18
ment officers have access to proper evidence-based 19
training in responding to mental health crises. 20
(5) Proper training for response to individuals 21
suffering from a mental health crisis can better pro-22
tect the safety of the general public and law enforce-23
ment officers. 24
(6) Law enforcement and corrections officers in 25
the United States can better serve their communities 26
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if the officers receive training to effectively and safe-1
ly resolve the mental health crises. 2
(b) P
URPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to provide 3
grants to State, local, and Tribal law enforcement agencies 4
and corrections agencies to obtain behavioral health crisis 5
response training for law enforcement officers and correc-6
tions officers to— 7
(1) better train law enforcement officers and 8
corrections officers to resolve behavioral health crisis 9
situations; 10
(2) reduce the number of law enforcement offi-11
cers and corrections officers killed or injured while 12
responding to a behavioral health crisis; and 13
(3) reduce the number of individuals killed or 14
injured during a behavioral health crisis in which a 15
law enforcement officer or corrections officer re-16
sponds. 17
SEC. 3. LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING FOR MENTAL 18
HEALTH CRISIS GRANT PROGRAM. 19
(a) R
ESERVATION OF FUNDS.—Section 506 of the 20
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 21
U.S.C. 10157) is amended by adding at the end the fol-22
lowing: 23
‘‘(c) Of the total amount made available to carry out 24
this subpart for a fiscal year, the Attorney General may 25
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reserve not more than $10,000,000 to carry out the pro-1
gram under section 509.’’. 2
(b) L
AWENFORCEMENT TRAINING FORMENTAL 3
H
EALTHCRISISGRANTPROGRAM.—Subpart 1 of part E 4
of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 5
Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10151 et seq.) is amended by add-6
ing at the end the following: 7
‘‘SEC. 510. LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING FOR MENTAL 8
HEALTH CRISIS GRANT PROGRAM. 9
‘‘(a) G
RANTSAUTHORIZED.—Subject to the avail-10
ability of appropriations, the Attorney General is author-11
ized to award grants to applicants for— 12
‘‘(1) law enforcement officers or corrections of-13
ficers to receive training from a program; and 14
‘‘(2) the cost of transportation and lodging as-15
sociated with law enforcement officers or corrections 16
officers attending such program. 17
‘‘(b) P
ROGRAMSTANDARDS.—The Attorney General 18
shall establish and publish qualification standards for or-19
ganizations that provide programs. 20
‘‘(c) A
PPLICATIONS.—The head of an applicant shall 21
submit to the Attorney General an application that— 22
‘‘(1) shall include— 23
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‘‘(A) a statement describing the program 1
the law enforcement officers or corrections offi-2
cers will complete; 3
‘‘(B) the total number of law enforcement 4
officers or corrections officers in the agency; 5
‘‘(C) the number of law enforcement offi-6
cers or corrections officers of the agency that 7
have been killed, or seriously injured while re-8
sponding to a behavioral health crisis during 9
the 5-year period preceding the date of the ap-10
plication; and 11
‘‘(D) whether the law enforcement officers 12
or corrections officers employed by the agency 13
receive any behavioral health crisis response 14
training, including during basic officer training; 15
and 16
‘‘(2) in addition to the information required 17
under paragraph (1), may, at the option of the ap-18
plicant, include information relating to— 19
‘‘(A) recent incidents involving officers of 20
the agency during which behavioral health crisis 21
response training could have played a role in 22
protecting the safety of— 23
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‘‘(i) the law enforcement officer or the 1
public, including the person or persons the 2
law enforcement officers encountered; or 3
‘‘(ii) the corrections officer or inmates 4
at the correctional facility; and 5
‘‘(B) estimated cost of attendance of a pro-6
gram per officer. 7
‘‘(d) R
ESTRICTIONS.— 8
‘‘(1) S
UPPLEMENTAL FUNDS .—Grant funds 9
shall be used to supplement, and not supplant, 10
State, local, and Tribal funds made available to any 11
applicant for any of the purposes described in sub-12
section (a). 13
‘‘(2) A
DMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—Not more than 14
3 percent of any grant made under this section may 15
be used for administrative costs. 16
‘‘(e) R
EPORTS ANDRECORDS.— 17
‘‘(1) R
EPORTS.—For each year during which 18
grant funds are used, the recipient shall submit to 19
the Attorney General a report containing— 20
‘‘(A) a summary of any activity carried out 21
using grant funds; 22
‘‘(B) the number of officers that received 23
training using grant funds; and 24
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‘‘(C) any other information relevant to the 1
purpose of this Act that the Attorney General 2
may determine appropriate. 3
‘‘(2) R
ECORDS.—For the purpose of an audit 4
by the Attorney General of the receipt and use of 5
grant funds, a recipient shall— 6
‘‘(A) keep— 7
‘‘(i) any record relating to the receipt 8
and use of grant funds; and 9
‘‘(ii) any other record as the Attorney 10
General may require; and 11
‘‘(B) make the records described in sub-12
paragraph (A) available to the Attorney General 13
upon request by the Attorney General. 14
‘‘(f) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 15
‘‘(1) A
PPLICANT.—The term ‘applicant’ means 16
a law enforcement agency or corrections agency that 17
applies for a grant under this section. 18
‘‘(2) A
TTORNEY GENERAL .—The term ‘Attor-19
ney General’ means the Attorney General, acting 20
through the Assistant Attorney General for the Of-21
fice of Justice Programs. 22
‘‘(3) G
RANT FUNDS.—The term ‘grant funds’ 23
means funds from a grant awarded under this sec-24
tion. 25
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‘‘(4) LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY .—The term 1
‘law enforcement agency’ means an agency of a 2
State or unit of local government that is authorized 3
by law or by a government agency to engage in or 4
supervise the prevention, detection, investigation, or 5
prosecution of any violation of criminal law. 6
‘‘(5) P
ROGRAM.—The term ‘program’ means a 7
program or class that— 8
‘‘(A) provides instructional training to law 9
enforcement officers or corrections officers for 10
response to a behavioral health crisis, including 11
response to people suspected to be under the in-12
fluence of a drug or psychoactive substance, 13
and response to circumstances in which a per-14
son is suspected to be suicidal or experiencing 15
a mental illness; 16
‘‘(B) includes training on techniques and 17
strategies designed to protect— 18
‘‘(i) the health and safety of law en-19
forcement officers and the public, including 20
the person or persons a law enforcement 21
officer encounters during a behavioral 22
health crisis response; or 23
‘‘(ii) the health and safety of correc-24
tions officers and inmates at the correc-25
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tional facility, including the inmate a cor-1
rections officer encounters during a behav-2
ioral health crisis response, or in the nor-3
mal course of business of interactions with 4
the inmate; and 5
‘‘(C) is developed in conjunction with 6
healthcare professionals and people with lived 7
experiences of mental health illness to provide 8
crisis intervention training focused on under-9
standing mental and behavioral health, devel-10
oping empathy, navigating community re-11
sources, de-escalation and communications 12
skills, and practical application training for offi-13
cers. 14
‘‘(6) R
ECIPIENT.—The term ‘recipient’ means 15
an applicant that receives a grant under this sec-16
tion.’’. 17
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