HR10216Referred to Committee

Public Transit Mental Health Awareness Act

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Passed One Chamber
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Passed Both
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Signed into Law
119th
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2026-09-01
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Brittany Pettersen
Brittany Pettersen
Democrat · CO · Representative
Votes with party: 96.7% (569 recorded votes)
Top industries funding sponsor:
  • Climate & Environment$5k

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Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

2026-09-01

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Transportation and Public Works

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 10216 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 10216 To amend title 49, United States Code, to require recipients of assistance under chapter 53 of such title to display information regarding the suicide prevention hotline on public transportation owned or operated by the recipient. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 1, 2026 Ms. Pettersen (for herself, Mr. Lawler, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Moulton, Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania, Ms. Stansbury, Ms. Scanlon, Ms. Norton, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Ms. Tlaib, and Ms. Ross) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend title 49, United States Code, to require recipients of assistance under chapter 53 of such title to display information regarding the suicide prevention hotline on public transportation owned or operated by the recipient. 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 ``Public Transit Mental Health Awareness Act''. SEC. 2. PUBLIC DISPLAY OF SUICIDE PREVENTION HOTLINE. Section 5323 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: ``(w) Public Display of Suicide Prevention Hotline.-- ``(1) In general.--A recipient (including a subrecipient) of assistance under this chapter shall display on public transportation owned or operated by the recipient, in a location visible to public transportation passengers, information regarding the suicide prevention hotline maintained pursuant to section 520E-3 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290bb-36c), including that such hotline is free, confidential, and available 24 hours a day. ``(2) Satisfaction of requirement.--A recipient (or subrecipient) may satisfy the requirement under paragraph (1) by displaying the information referred to in such paragraph-- ``(A) on all rolling stock vehicles of such recipient; or ``(B) in all transit facilities of such recipient. ``(3) Reasonable compliance.--If any public display of information required under paragraph (1) is temporarily damaged, removed, vandalized, or otherwise unavailable, the recipient (or subrecipient) responsible shall not be considered to be out of compliance with this subsection provided that the recipient makes a reasonable effort to replace or restore such display. ``(4) Revenue-generating advertising space.--The display of information required under this subsection shall not interfere with revenue-generating advertising space. ``(5) Effective date.--The requirement under paragraph (1) shall take effect 1 year after the date of enactment of this subsection.''. <all>
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