CARE for Mental Health Professionals Act
- Last Action
- 3/30/2023
Actions
- 2023-03-30Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- 2023-03-30Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2023-03-30 (00)
Compacts, Access, and Responsible Expansion for Mental Health Professionals Act or the CARE for Mental Health Professionals Act
This bill establishes a grant program to promote interstate licensure compacts for mental health professionals. These are licensure agreements enacted by two or more states to mutually recognize the licenses of counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, or pediatric mental health professionals.
The Health Resources and Services Administration must award grants to interstate compact commissions or professional licensing boards. Recipients may use grants for projects to (1) incentivize mental health professionals to practice in states with interstate licensure compacts, and (2) develop or maintain interstate compact commissions.
Subjects
- Health personnel
- Intergovernmental relations
- Licensing and registrations
- Mental health
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