House Bills - 108th Congress

H.R. 3063—Children's Mental Health Screening and Prevention Act

On September 10, 2003, Representative Rosa De Lauro (D-CT) introduced H.R. 3063, the Children's Mental Health Screening and Prevention Act of 2003. This legislation would require the Secretary of HHS to make ten grants to demonstration facilities to implement evidence-based preventive-screening tools to detect mental illness and suicidal tendencies in school-age youth at selected facilities. A provision of the legislation would require the Director of NIMH to provide consultation on a report to Congress reviewing the progress of the demonstration grants. H.R. 3063 was referred to the House Committees on Energy and Commerce and on Education and the Workforce.