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This Act may be cited as the . Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2015 The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Definitions. Title I—Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Sec. 101. Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders. Sec. 102. Transfer of SAMHSA authorities. Sec. 103. Reports. Sec. 104. Advisory Council on Graduate Medical Education. Title II—Grant reform and restructuring Sec. 201.
National mental health policy laboratory. Sec. 202. Innovation grants. Sec. 203. Demonstration grants. Sec. 204. Early childhood intervention and treatment. Sec. 205. Extension of assisted outpatient treatment grant program for individuals with serious mental illness. Sec. 206. Block grants. Sec. 207. Workforce development. Sec. 208. Authorized grants and programs. Title III—Interagency Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee Sec. 301. Interagency Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee.
Title IV—HIPAA and FERPA caregivers Sec. 401. Promoting appropriate treatment for mentally ill individuals by treating their caregivers as personal representatives for purposes of HIPAA privacy regulations. Sec. 402. Caregivers permitted access to certain education records under FERPA. Sec. 403. Confidentiality of records. Title V—Medicare and Medicaid reforms Sec. 501. Enhanced Medicaid coverage relating to certain mental health services. Sec. 502. Access to mental health prescription drugs under Medicare and Medicaid.
Sec. 503. Elimination of 190-day lifetime limit on coverage of inpatient psychiatric hospital services under Medicare. Sec. 504. Modifications to Medicare discharge planning requirements. Sec. 505. Demonstration programs to improve community mental health services. Title VI—Research by National Institute of Mental Health Sec. 601. Increase in funding for certain research. Title VII—Behavioral health information technology Sec. 701. Extension of health information technology assistance for behavioral and mental health and substance abuse.
Sec. 702. Extension of eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid health information technology implementation assistance. Title VIII—SAMHSA Reauthorization and Reforms Subtitle A—Organization and general authorities Sec. 801. In general. Sec. 802. Advisory councils. Sec. 803. Peer review. Subtitle B—Protection and advocacy for individuals with mental illness Sec. 811. Prohibition against lobbying by systems accepting Federal funds to protect and advocate the rights of individuals with mental illness.
Sec. 812. Ensuring that caregivers of individuals with serious mental illness have access to the protected health information of such individuals. Sec. 813. Protection and advocacy activities to focus exclusively on safeguarding rights to be free from abuse and neglect. Sec. 814. Reporting. Sec. 815. Grievance procedure. Sec. 816. Evidence-based treatment for individuals with serious mental illness. Title IX—Reporting Sec. 901. GAO study on preventing discriminatory coverage limitations for individuals with serious mental illness and substance use disorders.