118th Congress Health
S. 1075: CARE for Mental Health Professionals Act
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Summary
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.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
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History
- Introduced in the Senate by Angus King.
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- Introduced in Senate
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.