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Education - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress

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Bill Introduced: H.R.5996 Mental Health First Aid Higher Education Act of 2012

To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, in coordination with the Secretary of Education, to carry out a 5-year demonstration program to fund mental health first aid training programs at 10 institutions of higher education to improve student mental health.

Bill Introduced: S.3325 Mental Health First Aid Higher Education Act of 2012

A bill to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, in coordination with the Secretary of Education, to carry out a 5-year demonstration program to fund mental health first aid training programs at 10 institutions of higher education to improve student mental health.

Bill Introduced: H.R.5933 To amend section 1120A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to modify the comparability of services requirements.

To amend section 1120A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to modify the comparability of services requirements.

Bill Introduced: H.R.5871 Access to Papers Leads to Uninterrupted Scholars Act

To amend the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 to provide improvements to such Act.