Additionally, the bill creates a centralized database of resources where at-risk youth and their families, medical and nursing schools, and health care professionals can turn to for best practices in suicide prevention.
Create a centralized database of suicide prevention resources and best practices for at-risk youth, families, schools, and health care professionals.
Occurrences
Evidence
Congress.gov lists Rep. Lauren Underwood as sponsor of H.R.5035, introduced 08/13/2021. Latest action was referral to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health on 08/16/2021. CRS summarized that the bill would require HHS to set up a website for youth, families, providers, and health professional schools.
Congress.gov lists H.R.7265 sponsor as Rep. Underwood, introduced 02/07/2024; latest action was referral to the Subcommittee on Health on 02/09/2024; status was Introduced. CRS summary says the bill required HHS to develop and maintain a website with information for individuals under 26, families, health care providers, and health professional schools.
Section 4 directs the Secretary to develop and maintain a website informing covered individuals, family members or guardians, schools educating health care providers, and health care providers on suicide-prevention best practices and firearm-related suicide attempts.
GovInfo lists H.R.8070 as introduced in the House on March 25, 2026, sponsored by Lauren Underwood, referred to Energy and Commerce and Education and Workforce, with bill version Introduced in House.
Underwood's office said the Child Suicide Prevention Act would create a centralized database of resources where at-risk youth, their families, medical and nursing schools, and health care professionals can find suicide-prevention best practices.
The SPRC Best Practices Registry says listed programs are reviewed for alignment with current suicide-prevention guidance and describes the BPR as a resource library for programs and interventions in specific settings and groups. The site states SPRC is supported by an HHS/SAMHSA grant.
Assessments
Lauren Underwood materially pursued this promise by sponsoring multiple federal bills that would have required HHS to create and maintain a centralized suicide-prevention resource website for at-risk youth, families, schools, and health care professionals. But the available evidence shows those bills in 2021, 2024, and 2026 were introduced and referred without enactment, so the promised federal database was not delivered through her legislative efforts. A related SAMHSA-supported best-practices resource exists, but the record does not show it was created because of Underwood's proposal or that it fully constitutes her promised outcome. Because she made a serious, repeated legislative effort but did not achieve the promised result, this is best scored as never, with credit for effort, and the relevant activity occurred in later terms rather than being completed in the original term.
Underwood repeatedly sponsored legislation that would have required HHS to maintain a centralized suicide-prevention resource website for youth, families, schools training health professionals, and health care providers. That is a serious and closely matching legislative attempt, but the cited bills remained introduced or referred and were not enacted, so the promised database was not created through her work. A related SAMHSA-supported best-practices registry exists, but the evidence does not show it was created by Underwood's proposal or fully matches the promised audience and scope.