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Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a national outreach and education strategy and research to improve behavioral health among the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander population, while addressing stigma against behavioral health treatment among such population.
Introduced May 9, 2025 by Judy Chu · Last progress May 9, 2025
The bill increases visibility, data collection, and modest multi-year funding to improve culturally and linguistically appropriate behavioral health outreach and evidence for AANHPI communities, but it raises privacy risks, administrative burdens, and taxpayer costs while likely producing incremental rather than immediate expansions in services unless followed by further action.
Researchers, policymakers, and service planners will get disaggregated AANHPI data and publicly released findings, enabling more evidence-based, better-targeted programs and clearer allocation of resources.
AANHPI individuals will gain greater access to culturally and linguistically appropriate behavioral health information, outreach, and integrated care approaches as programs emphasize workforce diversification and tailored materials.
AANHPI youth (ages 10–24) specifically will benefit from better-targeted suicide prevention, mental health, and substance use interventions informed by disaggregated prevalence and risk data.
Taxpayers will bear new federal spending (including $3M/year through 2030 plus additional review authorizations), increasing budgetary costs for federal behavioral health activities.
Collecting and publishing highly disaggregated AANHPI data (and provider demographic data) raises real privacy and re-identification risks for small subgroups, which could deter some people from seeking care.
Providers, state and local agencies may face added administrative burdens and costs to adapt services, hire multilingual staff, and collect more detailed data, straining capacity at the point of delivery.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Requires HHS to create an AANHPI-focused outreach strategy, two systematic reviews (youth behavioral health and workforce), public reports, and authorizes targeted funding for FY2026–2030.
Creates federal programs, studies, and a national outreach strategy to reduce mental health stigma and improve behavioral-health services for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities. It requires culturally and linguistically tailored outreach, two systematic reviews (one on AANHPI youth behavioral health and one on growing the AANHPI behavioral health workforce), reporting to Congress, public release of findings, and authorizes modest funding for FY2026–2030.