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The bill makes suicide-crisis resources more visible and easier to find for students and families, improving access to help, while imposing modest costs on institutions and leaving potential access gaps for students without reliable internet or those awaiting new physical IDs.
Students and their families will have standardized, easy-to-find suicide-crisis contacts (e.g., 988, Crisis Text Line, campus mental health) posted on student ID cards and school websites, increasing visibility of campus mental-health resources and making help easier to find in crises.
Students without reliable internet access may be disadvantaged if their institution relies on website postings rather than physical ID cards, creating an access gap for low-income or off-campus students.
Colleges must update ID card designs and websites, imposing modest administrative and printing costs; small institutions may face a proportionally larger compliance burden.
Students at institutions that do not reissue physical ID cards promptly may not see the crisis contacts on their IDs until cards are replaced, delaying universal physical-card coverage for some students.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires colleges to put 988, Crisis Text Line, and the campus mental health center phone numbers on new student ID cards or publish them on their websites if no new IDs are issued.
Requires colleges and universities that make and give out student ID cards to print phone numbers for three suicide-prevention resources — the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, Crisis Text Line, and the campus mental health center — on those cards. If an institution does not create or distribute ID cards after the law takes effect, it must instead publish the same three contacts on its website. The Secretary may substitute a similar resource if 988 or Crisis Text Line stops operating. The rule becomes effective one year after enactment.
Introduced May 29, 2025 by Jose Luis Correa · Last progress May 29, 2025