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Expand the Behavioral Health Workforce Now Act

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Introduced
In Committee
3
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-12-16
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Steve Daines
Steve Daines
Republican · MT · Senator
Votes with party: 77.4% (889 recorded votes)

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

2025-12-16

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Plain-English Summary

Expand the Behavioral Health Workforce Now Act This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to issue guidance for states on ways to increase education, training, recruitment, and retention of mental health and substance use disorder providers under Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), particularly in rural and underserved areas.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

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