Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Reauthorization Act

Summary

Amends two existing federal programs that support mental health for health care workers by extending their authorized program years to 2025–2029 and updating program rules. One amendment updates the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act’s education and awareness initiative (adding language and shifting the date range). The other revises a Public Health Service Act mental‑health workforce support provision to redesignate a section, add an eligibility requirement that funded entities have a focus on reducing administrative burden for health care workers, and insert additional program text.

Key Points

• Extends two health‑care‑worker mental‑health program periods from 2022–2024 to 2025–2029.
• Adds new statutory language to the Dr. Lorna Breen Act education and awareness initiative to expand or clarify the initiative's text.
• Redesignates a Public Health Service Act section (764 → 764A) to reflect statutory reorganization.
• Requires eligible entities for the workforce mental‑health program to have a focus on reducing administrative burden for health care workers.
• Updates program text (additional insertions in subsections) but does not specify new appropriation amounts.
• Shifts grant/eligibility priorities toward organizations addressing both provider mental health and administrative‑burden reduction.
• Impacts federal program administrators who will need to update guidance and application criteria.
• Primarily an authorization and program‑design bill, not an appropriations measure.

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