H. R. 5553

CTE Student Mental Health and Wellness Act

Shown here: Introduced in House (2025-09-23)

To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure area career and technical education schools are eligible for mental health and substance use disorder service grants.

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the “CTE Student Mental Health and Wellness Act”.

2. Mental health and substance use disorder services for students in higher education

Section 520E–2 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290bb–36b) is amended—

(1) in subsections (a) through (f)—

(A) by striking “an institution of higher education” each place it appears and inserting “a covered institution”;

(B) by striking “the institution of higher education” each place it appears and inserting “the covered institution”; and

(C) by striking “institutions of higher education” each place it appears and inserting “covered institutions”;

(2) in subsection (c)—

(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “Any institution of higher education” and inserting “Any covered institution”; and

(B) in paragraph (5), by striking “institution of higher education supported” and inserting “covered institution–supported”; and

(3) by amending subsection (g) to read as follows:

(g) Covered institution defined
In this section, the term covered institution means—
(1) an area career and technical education school (as defined in section 3 of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006); and
(2) an institution of higher education (as defined in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965).

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