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Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Reauthorization Act

To reauthorize the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, and for other purposes.

Introduced Jan 28, 2025

Latest action (Jan 28, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Referred to
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Policy area
Health
Issues
Healthcare

Summary
  • Reauthorizes the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act to extend mental health education and awareness initiatives for health care providers through 2029
  • Changes the education and awareness initiative reporting requirement from a one-time report to annual reports
  • Expands the eligibility of entities receiving grants for mental health programs to include those with a focus on reducing administrative burden on health care workers
  • Extends authorization of the program promoting mental health among the health professional workforce through 2029, instead of ending in 2024
  • Clarifies that grant periods for the mental health workforce program must be for not less than a specified minimum duration

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
9 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Jan 28, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. · senate
  2. Jan 28, 2025 Introduced in Senate

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 929 — Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Reauthorization Act · Introduced Feb 4, 2025 · Cong. 119 92%
  • S 2294 — Kay Hagan Tick Reauthorization Act · Introduced Jul 15, 2025 · Cong. 119 60%
  • S 2524 — Restoring Essential Healthcare Act · Introduced Jul 29, 2025 · Cong. 119 59%
  • S 3473 — MAP for Care Act · Introduced Dec 15, 2025 · Cong. 119 57%
  • HR 4262 — To reauthorize programs related to health professions education, and for other purposes. · Introduced Sep 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 57%
  • S 2398 — Kay Hagan Tick Reauthorization Act · Became Law Sep 30, 2026 · Cong. 119 57%

Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

January 28, 2025

Mr. Kaine (for himself, Mr. Young, Mr. Reed, Mr. Marshall, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Warner, and Mrs. Capito) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

A BILL

To reauthorize the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, 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 “Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Reauthorization Act”.

SEC. 2. EDUCATION AND AWARENESS INITIATIVE ENCOURAGING USE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER SERVICES BY HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS.

Section 3 of the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (Public Law 117-105) is amended—

(1) in subsection (b), by inserting “and annually thereafter,” after “of this Act,”; and

(2) in subsection (c), by striking “2022 through 2024” and inserting “2025 through 2029”.

SEC. 3. PROGRAMS TO PROMOTE MENTAL HEALTH AMONG THE HEALTH PROFESSIONAL WORKFORCE.

The second section 764 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 294t), as added by section 4 of the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (Public Law 117-105), is amended—

(1) by redesignating such section 764 as section 764A;

(2) in subsection (a)(3)—

(A) by striking “to eligible entities in” and inserting “to eligible entities that—

“(A) are in”;

(B) by striking the period and inserting “; or”; and

(C) by adding at the end the following:

“(B) have a focus on the reduction of administrative burden on health care workers.”;

(3) in subsection (c), by inserting “not less than” after “period of”; and

(4) in subsection (f), by striking “2022 through 2024” and inserting “2025 through 2029”. <all>

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