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Community Preventive Care and Mental Health Access Act

Status: HopperSession: September 2026 Senate SessionIssue: Public Health

Summary

Creates an HHS grant program for preventive care, mental-health services, and telehealth in underserved communities, with priority for reducing emergency-room use and helping working families. Recipients must report access, usage, and cost savings while protecting patient privacy.

Full text

This Act establishes a bipartisan federal grant program through the Department of Health and Human Services to support community health centers, rural clinics, schools, and nonprofit providers serving underserved communities. Grants may fund preventive screenings, vaccinations, primary-care navigation, counseling, crisis-referral services, and telehealth, with priority given to programs that reduce avoidable emergency-room use and barriers for working families. Recipients shall report on access, service use, and measurable cost savings, while maintaining patient privacy and existing standards of care.

Sponsor

Mitch ColtonRepublican Party

Cosponsors

None yet

Debate

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