Provide funding for evidence-based youth suicide prevention and lethal-means safety training for current and future health care professionals.

The Child Suicide Prevention and Lethal Means Safety Act would provide funding for evidence-based training on youth suicide prevention to current and future health care professionals.

Underwood introduced legislation that would fund evidence-based youth suicide prevention training for current and future health care professionals.

Underwood, Schrier, Schatz Introduce Legislation to Address Youth Mental Health Crisis | Representative Lauren Underwood
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GovInfo text shows Rep. Lauren Underwood introduced H.R. 8070 on March 25, 2026. The bill would require HHS to award grants to train health care providers on evidence-aligned youth suicide prevention, lethal means safety, safe firearm storage, referrals, and related topics. It separately authorizes grants to health professional schools to integrate suicide prevention and lethal means safety curricula, with $20 million authorized for provider training and $10 million for curricula for FY2027-FY2030.

Underwood took concrete legislative action closely matching the promise, but the bill text is introduced legislation that would authorize future funding rather than an enacted funding law as of June 1, 2026.

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H.R. 8070 (119th Congress) - Child Suicide Prevention Act, Introduced in House
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GovInfo lists H.R. 8070 as an introduced House bill sponsored by Lauren Underwood, referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on Education and Workforce. The last action date listed is March 25, 2026, and the version is Introduced in House.

As of the available official record, the 2026 bill had not passed either chamber or become law; it remained a pending introduced bill.

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H.R. 8070 (IH) - Child Suicide Prevention Act, Content Details
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Congress.gov lists H.R. 7265 as sponsored by Rep. Lauren Underwood and introduced February 7, 2024. Its latest action was referral to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health on February 9, 2024, and Congress.gov marks the bill status as Introduced. The CRS summary says HHS would award grants to train health care providers on lethal means safety and youth suicide prevention strategies and award grants to health professional schools for curricula and continuing education.

Underwood introduced a prior version that matched the promise, but the 118th Congress bill did not advance beyond introduction/referral and did not deliver enacted funding.

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H.R.7265 - Child Suicide Prevention and Lethal Means Safety Act, 118th Congress
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Congress.gov lists H.R. 5035 as sponsored by Rep. Lauren Underwood and introduced August 13, 2021. Its latest action was referral to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health on August 16, 2021, and Congress.gov marks the bill status as Introduced. The CRS summary states that HHS must award grants to train health care providers on lethal means safety and other suicide prevention and intervention strategies for youth and young adults, and must award grants to health professional schools for suicide prevention curricula and continuing education.

The first identified Underwood bill directly addressed the promise but failed to advance beyond introduction/referral in the 117th Congress.

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H.R.5035 - Child Suicide Prevention and Lethal Means Safety Act, 117th Congress
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CDC says its Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Program funds 24 programs to implement and evaluate a comprehensive public health approach to suicide prevention, including populations such as youth and young adults. CDC states it is dedicating approximately $21 million per year to support the program.

Federal suicide-prevention funding existed and included youth/young adult populations, which supports partial delivery of the general funding goal, but this source does not show Underwood's dedicated current-and-future health professional training grant program was enacted.

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CDC Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Program
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CDC program profiles show CSP-funded activities such as California training health care and behavioral health providers on safe storage, Louisiana training health care providers working with youth on safety planning, reducing access to lethal means, and firearm and medication safe storage, and Wisconsin providing CALM trainings to support integration into health care system practice, policy, and procedures.

CDC-funded grants have supported some evidence-based suicide prevention and lethal-means safety training for current providers, including youth-related activities, but the profiles do not show a comprehensive enacted program for both current and future health care professionals as described in Underwood's bills.

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CDC Comprehensive Suicide Prevention: Program Profiles
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