What This Bill Does · Plain English
GovGreed Synthesis · AI extraction
This bill establishes a Youth Mental Health Research Initiative within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to coordinate and encourage collaborative research across NIH institutes and centers. The research focuses on building youth resilience, improving community capacity to care for at-risk youth, and enhancing the delivery of mental health interventions in clinical and community settings.
Carveouts & Earmarks · 1 line items · $600M tagged
Specific dollar amounts in this bill that flow to identifiable companies or programs — the actual cash trail.
$600M
Sec. 2 (adding 409K(b))
"There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2025 through 2030."
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Action Timeline
2025-04-02
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
2025-04-02
Introduced in Senate
Frequently Asked Questions
Did S.1266 pass?
S.1266 is still alive. Current stage: COMMITTEE. Pass likelihood: 42%.
What does S.1266 do?
This bill establishes a Youth Mental Health Research Initiative within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to coordinate and encourage collaborative research across NIH institutes and centers. The research focuses on building youth resilience, improving community capacity to care for at-risk youth, and enhancing the delivery of mental health interventions in clinical and community settings.
Who sponsored S.1266?
S.1266 was sponsored by Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota).
How much money does S.1266 spend?
S.1266 contains $600M in identified line-item carveouts to specific programs and companies, across 1 earmarks.
Full Bill Text
119 S1266 IS: Youth Mental Health Research Act U.S. Senate 2025-04-02 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1266 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 2, 2025 Ms. Klobuchar (for herself and Mrs. Britt ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To establish a Youth Mental Health Research Initiative in the National Institutes of Health for purposes of encouraging collaborative research to improve youth mental health. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Youth Mental Health Research Act . 2. Collaborative research on youth mental health Part B of title IV of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 284 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following: 409K. Collaborative research on youth mental health (a) In general The Director of NIH shall establish a Youth Mental Health Research Initiative, to be led by the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, in collaboration with the Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, to coordinate and encourage collaboration among the national research institutes and national centers with respect to fundamental and applied research on youth mental health, including— (1) social, behavioral, cognitive, and developmental research, to build resilience and increase the capacity of communities to identify and care for youth at risk or in crisis; and (2) research to improve the targeting and delivery of mental health interventions in clinical and community settings where youth live, play, work, and learn. (b) Authorization of appropriations There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2025 through 2030. .
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