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CARE for Mental Health Professionals Act

Introduced: March 30, 2023 Introduced by: King, Angus S., Jr. Independent · Maine See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Mar 30, 2023
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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.

What's happening now March 30, 2023

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

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