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The bill increases and standardizes student access to suicide-prevention contacts—likely improving crisis response and help-seeking—while imposing modest administrative costs on institutions and leaving temporary coverage or equity gaps for students without new IDs or reliable internet.
Students across covered campuses will have easier, immediate access to suicide-prevention contacts (988, Crisis Text Line, campus mental health) listed on student ID cards and campus websites, making it quicker to find help in a crisis.
Standardizing and publicizing crisis contacts increases visibility of campus mental health resources and reduces uncertainty for families and campus communities, which can raise help-seeking and counseling utilization.
Students at schools that do not reissue physical ID cards before the next issuance cycle may not see the printed contacts for many months, delaying universal access to the on-card information.
Relying on website postings for some institutions can disadvantage students without reliable internet access, reducing equitable access to the information.
Colleges must update ID card designs and websites, creating administrative and printing costs — a modest burden overall but proportionally higher for small institutions with tighter budgets.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires colleges to put 988, Crisis Text Line, and the campus mental health contact on student ID cards or, if no new cards are issued, on the institution's website.
Official title: To add suicide prevention resources to school identification cards.
Introduced May 29, 2025 by Jose Luis Correa · Last progress May 29, 2025
Requires colleges and universities to put three suicide-prevention contacts on student ID cards (or, if they do not issue new cards after enactment, on their websites): the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, Crisis Text Line, and the institution's campus mental health center. The Education Department may substitute equivalent services if 988 or Crisis Text Line cease to exist. Institutions have one year after the law is enacted to comply.