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Home-Based Telemental Health Care Act of 2022

Introduced: March 28, 2022 Introduced by: Rounds, Mike Republican · South Dakota See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Mar 28, 2022
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Home-Based Telemental Health Care Act of 2022

This bill establishes a grant program to fund demonstration projects to provide mental health services to medically underserved individuals in rural areas or in the farming, fishing, and forestry industries.

Specifically, the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth within the Health Resources and Services Administration must award grants to public or nonprofit telemental health provider networks to deliver, and evaluate the impact of, home-based telemental services for such individuals. The office must coordinate activities with the Rural Health Liaison of the Department of Agriculture.

What's happening now March 28, 2022

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

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 1 Republican 2
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Boozman, John
Arkansas · Mar 28, 2022
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Smith, Tina
Minnesota · Mar 28, 2022
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Thune, John
South Dakota · Mar 28, 2022
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3937: Home-Based Telemental Health Care Act of 2022. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-3937/
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"S. 3937: Home-Based Telemental Health Care Act of 2022." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-3937/.
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S. 3937, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-3937/.
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