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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6218. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place in title X, insert the following:
SEC. . ADDING SUICIDE PREVENTION CONTACT INFORMATION TO
SCHOOL IDENTIFICATION CARDS.
(a) In General.—Section 487(a) of the Higher Education Act
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1094(a)) is amended by adding at the end
the following:
“(30)(A) In the case of an institution that creates and
distributes—
“(i) physical student identification cards for students at
any time after the effective date of this paragraph, such
institution shall include phone contact information of the
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline on each such card and may
print, on one side of such card, a contact number for—
“(I)(aa) the Crisis Text Line; or
“(bb) another nonprofit organization that—
“(AA) is dedicated to suicide prevention;
“(BB) has mobile messaging capabilities; and
“(CC) has demonstrated the capacity to provide mental
health support; or
“(II) a campus mental health center or local program, as
determined by the institution; and
“(ii) digital student identification cards for students at
any time after the effective date of this paragraph, such
institution shall include phone contact information of the
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline on each such card and may
include a contact number for—
“(I)(aa) the Crisis Text Line; or
“(bb) another nonprofit organization that—
“(AA) is dedicated to suicide prevention;
“(BB) has mobile messaging capabilities; and
“(CC) has demonstrated the capacity to provide mental
health support; or
“(II) a campus mental health center or local program, as
determined by the institution.
“(B) In the case of an institution that does not create
and distribute identification cards for students at any time
after the effective date of this paragraph, such institution
shall
publish the suicide prevention contact information specified
in subparagraph (A)(i) on the website of such institution.
“(C) In this paragraph—
“(i) the term `digital student identification card' means
a digital identification, digital wallet, mobile
identification, or similar application or representation
issued by an institution of higher education to identify and
authenticate the status or information of a student at the
institution of higher education; and
“(ii) the term `physical student identification card'
means a tangible, nondigital card or document issued by an
institution of higher education to identify and authenticate
the status or information of a student at the institution of
higher education.”.
(b) Effective Date.—The amendment made by subsection (a)
shall take effect beginning on the day that is 2 years after
the date of enactment of this Act.
(c) Rule of Construction.—Nothing in the amendment made by
subsection (a) shall be construed to require an institution
of higher education to reissue an unexpired physical student
identification card or a digital student identification card
issued to a student of the institution of higher education
prior to the effective date of such subsection.