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Effective Suicide Screening and Assessment in the Emergency Department Act of 2021
Introduced: February 25, 2021
Introduced by:
Murkowski, Lisa
Republican
· Alaska
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 25, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Feb 25, 2021
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Effective Suicide Screening and Assessment in the Emergency Department Act of 2021
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to award grants to hospitals to improve their capacity to identify patients in emergency departments who are at risk of suicide and connect those patients with mental health treatments and services.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
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