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The bill increases federal support for culturally competent mental-health services, school-based prevention, family training, and data collection for LGBTQ+ youth—improving access and evidence—while imposing modest federal costs, administrative requirements, funding exclusions for certain providers, and residual privacy and legal risks.
LGBTQ+ youth and students: expands access to culturally competent mental-health and crisis services through new federal grants for direct care and navigation, increasing available supportive services.
Students and schools: promotes bullying-prevention guidelines and integration of behavioral health into school systems, which can reduce school-based harms and improve student well-being.
Parents, families, and caregivers: provides funding for cultural competency training and family acceptance/support models to improve care for LGBTQ+ youth and reduce family-related harms.
Children, LGBTQ+ respondents, and their families: despite added confidentiality rules, unlawful disclosures by staff remain possible and remedies are limited (capped at $500 per violation), leaving privacy risks.
Healthcare providers and some nonprofits: the prohibition on funding conversion therapy will exclude providers who offer those practices from grant eligibility, reducing the pool of potential grantees and services.
Grantees, schools, and state agencies: new compliance, data collection, and reporting requirements increase administrative burden for organizations that apply for or administer grants.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Introduced June 5, 2025 by Sharice Davids · Last progress June 5, 2025
Creates a SAMHSA-administered grant program to assess and improve mental health and substance-use outcomes for LGBTQ+ youth, authorizes $20 million per year for 2026–2030, and sets conditions on how grant funds can be used. It also requires HHS to update certain agency publications, develop a federal survey on mental health for LGBTQ+ youth with strict confidentiality protections and civil remedies for unlawful disclosure, and produce a report on mental health and cultural competency for LGBTQ+ youth in foster care and other federally overseen social programs.