HB 25-1132

House Bill 25-1132, also known as the Military Family Behavioral Health Grant Program, aims to provide grants to local nonprofit organizations to help them establish and expand community programs that offer mental health services to service members, veterans, and their families. The bill reduces funding for existing veteran mental health services by $5 million, but only if there is more than $5 million available in the budget for these services. Since the bill has been signed into law, it means that nonprofit organizations can now apply for grants to support behavioral health programs for military families, and the reduction in funds will be applied as specified.

Official Summary

The act expands the veterans mental health services program to provide grants to local nonprofit organizations to establish and expand community behavioral health programs that provide behavioral health services to service members, veterans, and family members of service members and veterans. The act reduces the reappropriated funds appropriation made in the long bill to the department of military and veterans affairs for use by the division of veterans affairs for veterans mental health services by $5,000,000; except that the reduction is not made if: The amount of reappropriated funds made in the long bill to the department of military and veterans affairs for use by the division of veterans affairs for veterans mental health is less than $5,000,000; or The long bill does not include an appropriation to the department of military and veterans affairs for use by the division of veterans affairs for veterans mental health.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

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