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Expand the Behavioral Health Workforce Now Act
Introduced Dec 16, 2025 by Sen. Steve Daines
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Latest action · Dec 16, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
What it does
Expand the Behavioral Health Workforce Now Act
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to issue guidance for states on ways to increase education, training, recruitment, and retention of mental health and substance use disorder providers under Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), particularly in rural and underserved areas.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service.
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