[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2630 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2630

 To amend the Advancing Research to Prevent Suicide Act to expand the 
  areas of focus regarding childhood suicide, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 3, 2025

Ms. Gillen (for herself and Mr. Begich) introduced the following bill; 
 which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Advancing Research to Prevent Suicide Act to expand the 
  areas of focus regarding childhood suicide, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Youth Suicide Prevention Research 
Act''.

SEC. 2. NSF RESEARCH REGARDING CHILDHOOD SUICIDE.

    Subsection (a) of section 3 of the Advancing Research to Prevent 
Suicide Act (42 U.S.C. 1862v) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (4), by striking ``and'' after the 
        semicolon;
            (2) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (7); and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following new 
        paragraphs:
            ``(5) basic understanding of the role of adverse childhood 
        experiences;
            ``(6) basic understanding of the role of toxic stress in 
        childhood; and''.
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