Members of the U.S. House have rounded up broad, bipartisan support for a bill that could set new federal rules for how the United States handles people believed to have serious mental illness.
The full House Energy and Commerce Committee is preparing to meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday to review and vote on H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act bill. The committee plans to stream video of the bill markup live on the web.
The committee could look at two versions of the bill.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
