Youth Suicide Prevention Research Act

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8377 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8377

 To amend the Advancing Research to Prevent Suicide Act to expand the 
  areas of focus regarding childhood suicide, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 14, 2024

    Ms. Caraveo (for herself, Mr. Williams of New York, Mrs. Watson 
Coleman, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. Thanedar, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Ms. Lee of 
  California, Ms. Tlaib, and Ms. Stansbury) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and 
                               Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Advancing Research to Prevent Suicide Act to expand the 
  areas of focus regarding childhood suicide, and for other purposes.

    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 Suicide Prevention Research 
Act''.

SEC. 2. NSF RESEARCH REGARDING CHILDHOOD SUICIDE.

    Subsection (a) of section 3 of the Advancing Research to Prevent 
Suicide Act is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (4), by striking ``and'' after the 
        semicolon;
            (2) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (7); and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following new 
        paragraphs:
            ``(5) basic understanding of the role of adverse childhood 
        experiences;
            ``(6) basic understanding of the role of toxic stress in 
        childhood; and''.
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