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Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Reauthorization Act

Sponsored by Tim KaineSen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)
Introduced January 28, 2025

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The Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Reauthorization Act renews the original law that supports mental‑health and substance‑use services for health‑care workers. It makes the education and awareness initiative a recurring effort, updates the program’s funding window to 2025‑2029, and refines how grant money is allocated—emphasizing entities that help reduce administrative burdens on clinicians. These changes aim to sustain and improve support for the health‑care workforce’s mental well‑being.

Key Provisions

  • Extends the education and awareness program that encourages health‑care workers to use mental‑health and substance‑use services, making the program repeat annually and updating its funding period to 2025‑2029.
  • Renames the related Public Health Service Act provision to section 764A and revises eligibility language so that funds go to entities that either serve health‑care workers directly or focus on reducing administrative burdens for them.
  • Adds a requirement that the program’s funding period be "not less than" a specified length, and updates all references to the program’s active years from 2022‑2024 to 2025‑2029.

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee

January 28, 2025

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee

January 28, 2025

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Introduced in SenateIssued January 28, 2025

II

119th CONGRESS

1st Session

S. 266

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

January 28, 2025

Mr. Kaine (for himself, Mr. Young, Mr. Reed, Mr. Marshall, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Warner, and Mrs. Capito) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

A BILL

To reauthorize the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, and for other purposes.

1.

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Reauthorization Act.

2.

Education and awareness initiative encouraging use of mental health and substance use disorder services by health care professionals

Section 3 of the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (Public Law 117–105) is amended—

(1)

in subsection (b), by inserting and annually thereafter, after of this Act,; and

(2)

in subsection (c), by striking 2022 through 2024 and inserting 2025 through 2029.

3.

Programs to promote mental health among the health professional workforce

The second section 764 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 294t), as added by section 4 of the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (Public Law 117–105), is amended—

(1)

by redesignating such section 764 as section 764A;

(2)

in subsection (a)(3)—

(A)

by striking to eligible entities in and inserting “to eligible entities that—

(A)

are in

;

(B)

by striking the period and inserting ; or; and

(C)

by adding at the end the following:

(B)

have a focus on the reduction of administrative burden on health care workers.

;

(3)

in subsection (c), by inserting not less than after period of; and

(4)

in subsection (f), by striking 2022 through 2024 and inserting 2025 through 2029.