HR 3757
Pride In Mental Health Act of 2025
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The Pride In Mental Health Act of 2025 aims to improve the mental health support available to LGBTQ+ youth and their families by establishing a grant program for mental health services. It prohibits the use of funds for conversion therapy and directs the Department of Health and Human Services to update resources and conduct a federal survey on the mental health of this population. The bill also prioritizes culturally competent care and integration of mental health services within schools.
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
H. R. 3757
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A BILL
To amend title V of the Public Health Service Act to ensure protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth and their families.
This Act may be cited as the Pride In Mental Health Act of 2025
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Subpart 3 of part B of title V of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290bb–31 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
Secretary), shall establish a program under which the Secretary will award grants to eligible entities to assess and improve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, nonbinary, intersex, and Two Spirit youth mental health and substance abuse outcomes.
An eligible entity receiving a grant under this section shall use funds received through such grant—
An eligible entity selected to receive a grant under this section shall agree, as a condition on receiving the grant, that such funds shall not be used—
to provide conversion therapy to any individual;
to advertise for the provision of conversion therapy and claim in such advertising—
to change another individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity;
to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward individuals of the same gender; or
that such efforts are harmless or without risk to individuals receiving such therapy;
to knowingly assist or facilitate the provision of conversion therapy to an individual if such person receives compensation from any source in connection with providing conversion therapy; or
to promote or direct an individual to conversion therapy resources or providers.
means any practice or treatment by any person that seeks to change another individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity, including efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions, or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward individuals of the same gender, if such person—
receives monetary compensation in exchange for such practice or treatment; or
instead of, or in addition to, receiving monetary compensation in exchange for such practice or treatment directly, receives monetary compensation in exchange for a product or service that is integral to the provision of such practice or treatment by such person, unless such product or service is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution; and
does not include any practice or treatment, which does not seek to change sexual orientation or gender identity, that—
provides assistance to an individual undergoing a gender transition; or
provides acceptance, support, and understanding of a client or facilitation of a client’s coping, social support, and identity exploration and development, including sexual orientation-neutral interventions to prevent or address unlawful conduct or unsafe sexual practices.
Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary shall restore, review, and update as necessary, the reports and publications that were listed on the internet website of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration on January 19, 2025, and that were focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, non-binary, intersex, and Two Spirit individuals.
The Secretary shall develop and conduct a Federal survey measuring serious psychological distress, mental illness, mental health, and mental health care among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, nonbinary, intersex, and Two Spirit youth. In developing such survey, the Secretary may consider integrating such survey as an enhanced feature of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
All data or information collected in identifiable form pursuant to this subsection shall be treated as confidential and shall be used only by officers, employees, or agents of the Department of Health and Human Services, and exclusively for statistical purposes.
Data or information acquired by the Secretary pursuant to this subsection shall not be disclosed by an agency or its officers, employees, or agents in identifiable form, or for any use other than an exclusively statistical purpose. In no case shall information furnished under this subsection be used to the detriment of any respondent or other person to whom such information relates. A disclosure pursuant to this subsection is authorized only when the Secretary or the Secretary’s designee approves such disclosure, and the disclosure is not prohibited by any other law.
This subsection does not restrict or diminish any confidentiality protections or remedies in law that otherwise apply to information acquired by the Secretary under this subsection.
Whoever, being an officer, employee, or agent of an agency acquiring information for exclusively statistical purposes, having taken and subscribed the oath of office, or having sworn to observe the limitations imposed by this subsection, comes into possession of such information by reason of being an officer, employee, or agent and knowing that the disclosure of the specific information is prohibited under the provisions of this subsection, willfully discloses the information in any manner to a person or agency not authorized under this subsection to receive it, may be subject to a civil action against the individual in a court of competent jurisdiction for declaratory or injunctive relief, compensatory damages for any harms reasonably related to the disclosure, statutory damages up to $500 per violation, punitive damages, and attorney’s fees. Such action may be brought against such individual by any party whose identifiable data or information is disclosed or used in violation of this subsection. A claim of sovereign immunity is not a defense to an action brought under this subparagraph.
The Secretary shall require that respondents to the Federal survey described in paragraph (1) are notified, prior to participation, of their right to confidentiality and the availability of remedy in the occasion of a violation of this subsection.
statistical purposehas the same meaning and application given the term in section 3561 of title 44, United States Code.
Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary shall submit the report required under paragraph (1) to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate.
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030.