A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to award grants to eligible crisis centers to provide follow-up services to individuals receiving suicide prevention and crisis intervention services, to and the Communications Act of 1934 to improve the accessibility of 9-8-8, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 4640 Introduced in Senate (IS)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4640 To amend the Public Health Service Act to award grants to eligible crisis centers to provide follow-up services to individuals receiving suicide prevention and crisis intervention services, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to improve the accessibility of 9-8-8, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 21, 2026 Mr. Padilla (for himself, Mr. Tillis, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. King, Mrs. Shaheen, and Mr. Blumenthal) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the Public Health Service Act to award grants to eligible crisis centers to provide follow-up services to individuals receiving suicide prevention and crisis intervention services, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to improve the accessibility of 9-8-8, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``9-8-8 Connect Act''. SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR FOLLOW-UP SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS RECEIVING SUICIDE PREVENTION AND CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES. Title V of the Public Health Service Act is amended by inserting after section 520E-4 (42 U.S.C. 290bb-36d) the following: ``SEC. 520E-5. FOLLOW-UP SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS RECEIVING SUICIDE PREVENTION AND CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES. ``(a) In General.--The Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary, shall award grants to eligible crisis centers to provide follow-up services to individuals receiving suicide prevention and crisis intervention services. ``(b) Eligibility.--To be eligible to seek a grant under this section