S. 3289: Children's Mental Health Accessibility Act of 2012
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S. 3289: Children's Mental Health Accessibility Act of 2012
112th Congress · introduced 2012-06-13 · Health · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2012-06-13 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Children's Mental Health Accessibility Act of 2012
Plain summary
Children's Mental Health Accessibility Act of 2012 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to: (1) expand the Medicaid home and community-based services waiver to include youth in need of services provided in a psychiatric residential treatment facility; (2) limit, under the waiver, the total number of Medicaid inpatient bed days at psychiatric residential treatment facilities during each fiscal year to the total number for the previous fiscal year as increased by the estimated percentage increase (if any) in the population of individuals under 21 residing in the state over the preceding 12-month period; and (3) change references to mental retardation to references to an intellectual disability.
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Official text
Children's Mental Health Accessibility Act of 2012
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA] · 5 cosponsors
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Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Roger F. Wicker (R-MS)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-112s3289.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/112/s>
Record fed-us-cong112-s3289 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112