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Youth Suicide Prevention Research Act
To amend the Advancing Research to Prevent Suicide Act to expand the areas of focus regarding childhood suicide, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill amends the Advancing Research to Prevent Suicide Act to expand the National Science Foundation's research priorities on childhood suicide. It adds two new focus areas for federally funded research: understanding the role of adverse childhood experiences in childhood suicide, and understanding the role of toxic stress in childhood. The amendment inserts these two new research priorities into the existing law's list of areas the NSF should support.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Gillen, Laura [D-NY-4] (D-NY)
5 cosponsors
Actions (2)
- Apr 3, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. · house
- Apr 3, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 3, 2025
Ms. Gillen (for herself and Mr. Begich) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
A BILL
To amend the Advancing Research to Prevent Suicide Act to expand the areas of focus regarding childhood suicide, and for other purposes.
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 “Youth Suicide Prevention Research Act”.
SEC. 2. NSF RESEARCH REGARDING CHILDHOOD SUICIDE.
Subsection (a) of section 3 of the Advancing Research to Prevent Suicide Act (42 U.S.C. 1862v) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (4), by striking “and” after the semicolon;
(2) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (7); and
(3) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following new paragraphs:
“(5) basic understanding of the role of adverse childhood experiences;
“(6) basic understanding of the role of toxic stress in childhood; and”. <all>
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