119-hr5553

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5553 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 5553

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure area career and 
 technical education schools are eligible for mental health and 
 substance use disorder service grants.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 September 23, 2025

 Mr. Langworthy (for himself, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, and Ms. 
 Bonamici) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Energy and Commerce

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 A BILL

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure area career and 
 technical education schools are eligible for mental health and 
 substance use disorder service grants.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``CTE Student Mental Health and 
Wellness Act''.

SEC. 2. MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER SERVICES FOR STUDENTS 
 IN HIGHER EDUCATION.

 

Section 520E-2 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290bb-
36b) is amended--

    (1) in subsections

    (a) through

    (f) --
        (A) by striking ``an institution of higher 
 education'' each place it appears and inserting ``a 
 covered institution'';
        (B) by striking ``the institution of higher 
 education'' each place it appears and inserting ``the 
 covered institution''; and
            (C) by striking ``institutions of higher 
 education'' each place it appears and inserting 
 ``covered institutions'';

    (2) in subsection
            (c) --
        (A) in the matter preceding paragraph

    (1) , by 
 striking ``Any institution of higher education'' and 
 inserting ``Any covered institution''; and
        (B) in paragraph

    (5) , by striking ``institution of 
 higher education supported'' and inserting ``covered 
 institution-supported''; and

    (3) by amending subsection

    (g) to read as follows:
 ``

    (g) Covered Institution Defined.--In this section, the term 
`covered institution' means--
 ``

    (1) an area career and technical education school (as 
 defined in 

section 3 of the Carl D. Perkins Career and 
 Technical Education Act of 2006); and
 ``

    (2) an institution of higher education (as defined in 
 

section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965).''.
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