Post-Disaster Mental Health Response Act
This bill authorizes the provision of professional counseling services to victims of declared emergencies (current law limits such authorization to victims of major disasters).
To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
   Assistance Act to authorize the President to provide professional 
counseling services to victims of emergencies declared under such Act, 
                        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 ``Post-Disaster Mental Health Response 
Act''.

SEC. 2. CRISIS COUNSELING ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING.

    Section 502(a)(6) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5192(a)(6)) is amended by inserting 
``and section 416'' after ``section 408''.
                                                       Calendar No. 504

117th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 3677

                          [Report No. 117-162]

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Post-Disaster Mental Health Response Act
A bill to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to provide professional counseling services to victims of emergencies declared under such Act, and for other purposes.
Post-Disaster Mental Health Response Act
Post-Disaster Mental Health Response Act
Sen. Durbin, Richard J.