S 157 United States Senate · 117th Congress

Virtual Peer Support Act of 2021

Summary
Virtual Peer Support Act of 2021 This bill appropriates funding for grants to transition behavioral health peer support services that are provided at no cost to participants from in-person to virtual platforms or to otherwise expand these kinds of virtual services. Specifically, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration must award competitive grants to certain consumer-controlled or consumer-run organizations and tribal communities. Among other eligibility requirements for these grants, entities must have offered certain behavioral health services at no cost to participants before the declaration of the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency.
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Feb 2021
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Introduced Feb 2, 2021 Last action Feb 2, 2021
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Feb 2, 2021
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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Feb 2, 2021
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