S 2035 113th Congress Senate

SPRINT Act

Official title: A bill to provide funding to the National Institute of Mental Health to support suicide prevention and brain research, including funding for the Brain Research… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to provide funding to the National Institute of Mental Health to support suicide prevention and brain research, including funding for the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.

Introduced: May 8, 2014 See on congress.gov

Health Department of Health and Human ServicesExecutive agency funding and structureHealth care coverage and accessHealth promotion and preventive care

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Medical researchMental healthNational Institutes of Health (NIH)Neurological disordersResearch administration and fundingRural conditions and development

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Feb 24, 2014

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Feb 24, 2014

Introduced in Senate

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Latest action February 24, 2014

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Suicide Prevention Research INnovaTion Act or the SPRINT Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the National Institute of Mental Health to use funds made available by this Act exclusively for the purpose of conducting and supporting: (1) research on the determinants of self-directed and other violence in mental illness, including studies designed to reduce the risk of self-harm, suicide, and interpersonal violence, especially in rural communities with a shortage of mental health services; and (2) brain research through the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.

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