[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1266 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1266

To establish a Youth Mental Health Research Initiative in the National 
Institutes of Health for purposes of encouraging collaborative research 
                    to improve youth mental health.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 2, 2025

  Ms. Klobuchar (for herself and Mrs. Britt) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To establish a Youth Mental Health Research Initiative in the National 
Institutes of Health for purposes of encouraging collaborative research 
                    to improve youth mental health.

    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 ``Youth Mental Health Research Act''.

SEC. 2. COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ON YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH.

    Part B of title IV of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 284 
et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 409K. COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ON YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH.

    ``(a) In General.--The Director of NIH shall establish a Youth 
Mental Health Research Initiative, to be led by the Director of the 
National Institute of Mental Health, in collaboration with the Director 
of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and 
Human Development and the Director of the National Institute on 
Minority Health and Health Disparities, to coordinate and encourage 
collaboration among the national research institutes and national 
centers with respect to fundamental and applied research on youth 
mental health, including--
            ``(1) social, behavioral, cognitive, and developmental 
        research, to build resilience and increase the capacity of 
        communities to identify and care for youth at risk or in 
        crisis; and
            ``(2) research to improve the targeting and delivery of 
        mental health interventions in clinical and community settings 
        where youth live, play, work, and learn.
    ``(b) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $100,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2025 through 2030.''.
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