H.R. 2587

Summary

H.R. 2587, the Youth Mental Health Research Act, was introduced in the House on Apr 1, 2025 by Rep. Bonnie Coleman (D) with 18 co-sponsors. It was referred to Energy And Commerce, and last saw action on Apr 1, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Record

Text

H.R. 2587 has 18 co-sponsors.

119 HR 2587 IH: Youth Mental Health Research Act
 U.S. House of Representatives
 2025-04-01
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 I  119th CONGRESS  1st Session  H. R. 2587  IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES   April 1, 2025   Mrs. Watson Coleman  (for herself,  Mr. Kean , and  Mr. Fitzpatrick ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the  Committee on Energy and Commerce    A BILL
To establish a Youth Mental Health Research Initiative in the National Institutes of Health for purposes of encouraging collaborative research to improve youth mental health.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the   Youth Mental Health Research Act  .
2.
Collaborative research on youth mental health
Part B of title IV of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 284 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following:
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Collaborative research on youth mental health
(a)
In general
The Director of NIH shall establish a Youth Mental Health Research Initiative, to be led by the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, in collaboration with the Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, to coordinate and encourage collaboration among the national research institutes and national centers with respect to fundamental and applied research on youth mental health, including—
(1)
social, behavioral, cognitive, and developmental research, to build resilience and increase the capacity of communities to identify and care for youth at risk or in crisis; and
(2)
research to improve the targeting and delivery of mental health interventions in clinical and community settings where youth live, play, work, and learn.
(b)
Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2025 through 2030.
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To establish a Youth Mental Health Research Initiative in the National Institutes of Health for purposes of encouraging collaborative research to improve youth mental health.

Sponsors

Rep. Bonnie Coleman (D) sponsors H.R. 2587, and 18 members have co-sponsored it, 2 of them from the day it was introduced.

Bonnie Coleman

Rep. · D–NJ-12 · Sponsor

Introduced Apr 1, 2025

Brian Fitzpatrick

Rep. · R–PA-1 · Co-sponsor

Joined Apr 1, 2025 · Original

Thomas Kean

Rep. · R–NJ-7 · Co-sponsor

Joined Apr 1, 2025 · Original

Angela Craig

Rep. · D–MN-2 · Co-sponsor

Joined Apr 3, 2025

Eleanor Norton

Rep. · D–DC-0 · Co-sponsor

Joined Apr 13, 2026

Joyce Beatty

Rep. · D–OH-3 · Co-sponsor

Joined Apr 13, 2026

Salud Carbajal

Rep. · D–CA-24 · Co-sponsor

Joined Apr 13, 2026

Yvette Clarke

Rep. · D–NY-9 · Co-sponsor

Joined Apr 13, 2026

Sharice Davids

Rep. · D–KS-3 · Co-sponsor

Joined Apr 13, 2026

Veronica Escobar

Rep. · D–TX-16 · Co-sponsor

Joined Apr 13, 2026

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Committees

H.R. 2587 went before 1 committee: Energy and Commerce.

Energy and Commerce

Energy and Commerce

Referred To · Apr 1, 2025 · 1,636 Bills

Actions

H.R. 2587 has taken 2 actions since Apr 1, 2025.

Votes

H.R. 2587 has not gone to a roll call.

Related bills

1 bill is related to H.R. 2587, as Identical bill.

S 1266Youth Mental Health Research ActApr 2, 2025 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensi… · Identical bill

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Titles

H.R. 2587 goes by 3 titles, 1 of them short titles.

• Youth Mental Health Research Act — Display Title
• Youth Mental Health Research Act — Short Title(s) as Introduced
• To establish a Youth Mental Health Research Initiative in the National Institutes of Health for purposes of encouraging collaborative research to improve youth mental health. — Official Title as Introduced

Lobbying

5 clients hired 5 firms and 34 registered lobbyists who named H.R. 2587 in 26 quarterly filings, 2025 to 2026. Reported under the Lobbying Disclosure Act; a filing’s income covers everything its registrant worked that quarter, so the amounts below are the filings’, not this bill’s.

Filed under Budget/Appropriations, Health Issues, Education, Medicare/Medicaid, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Veterans, Defense, Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice.

Clients

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Firms

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Lobbyists

Named on the filings that cite the bill. The 20 named most often, of 34.

Filings

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Classification

The Congressional Research Service files H.R. 2587 under Health, one of its 31 policy areas.

CRS Subjects

CRS assigns every bill one policy area from its 31; H.R. 2587’s is Health.

Constitutional authority

The clause the sponsor cites as Congress’s power to enact H.R. 2587, as entered in the Congressional Record.

[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 58 (Tuesday, April 1, 2025)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN:H.R. 2587.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8, Clause 18: [The Congress shall havePower . . .] To make all Laws which shall be necessary andproper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, andall other Powers vested by this Constitution in theGovernment of the United States, or in any Department orOfficer thereof.[Page H1406]

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