To add suicide prevention resources to school identification cards.

This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require an institution that creates and distributes student-identification cards to include on such cards phone contact information for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, the Crisis Text Line, and either the campus mental-health program or the local nonemergency line.

An institution that does not create and distribute such cards shall publish such information on its website.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6984 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6984

  To add suicide prevention resources to school identification cards.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 2018

  Mr. Correa introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To add suicide prevention resources to school identification cards.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ADDING SUICIDE PREVENTION CONTACT INFORMATION TO SCHOOL 
              IDENTIFICATION CARDS.

    Section 487(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1094) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(30)(A) In the case of an institution that creates and 
        distributes identification cards for students after the date of 
        enactment of this paragraph, such institution shall include 
        phone contact information on such cards for the following 
        organizations:
                            ``(i) The National Suicide Prevention 
                        Lifeline.
                            ``(ii) The Crisis Text Line.
                            ``(iii) Except as provided for in 
                        subparagraph (B), a campus mental health center 
                        or program, as determined by the institution.
                    ``(B) If the institution does not have a campus 
                mental health center or program, then the institution 
                shall include a local nonemergency telephone number on 
                the student identification cards described in 
                subparagraph (A).
                    ``(C) In the case of an institution that does not 
                create and distribute identification cards for students 
                after the date of enactment of this paragraph, such 
                institution shall publish the suicide prevention 
                contact information specified in subparagraph (A) on 
                the website of such institution.''.
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