H 4667
An Act building resilience and increasing access to mental health services
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Bill overview
This bill creates a grant program to help nonprofit organizations that serve communities at high risk of hate crimes or are themselves at high risk of hate crimes. The program aims to increase staff competency in behavioral health and expand supportive programming to address mental health needs within these communities. The Department of Mental Health will oversee the grants and track their distribution and impact through regular reporting.
Key provisions
- Establishes a mental health capacity grant program for high-risk nonprofits.
- Grants support staff training in behavioral health competency.
- Grants support expanded supportive programming for staff and communities.
- Grants must be distributed geographically equitably and correlate with hate crime data.
- The Department of Mental Health will create regulations for the grant program.
- The Commissioner of Mental Health will file annual reports detailing grant activities.
- Reports will include application numbers, grant awards, funding amounts, and grantee missions.
- Priorities will be based on annual state reporting on hate crimes.
Who is affected
- Nonprofit organizations
- Communities at high risk of hate crimes
- Populations at high risk of hate crimes
- Staff of nonprofit organizations
- Mental health service recipients
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Primary sponsor
Substance Use and Recovery Joint Committee on Mental Health
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Bill H.4667 194th (Current)
An Act building resilience and increasing access to mental health services
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Bill Information
Sponsor: Joint Committee on Mental Health, Substance Use and Recovery Status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means
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Bill History
Displaying 4 actions for Bill H.4667
| Date | Branch | Action |
| 11/5/2025 | House | Reported from the committee on Mental Health, Substance Use and Recovery |
| 11/5/2025 | House | New draft of H2207 |
| 11/5/2025 | House | Reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Health Care Financing |
| 12/4/2025 | House | Committee recommended bill ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means |
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