Kid PROOF Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Rep. James, John [R-MI-10]
Introduced
Summary
Adds suicide prevention into youth substance-use treatment and guarantees grant funding. This bill would expand services for children, adolescents, and young adults to explicitly include suicide prevention and authorize targeted interventions while ensuring minimum annual grant support for 2026–2030.
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- Families and parents: Parents or legal guardians could get counseling on best practices to prevent overdose and suicide and be given supplies to reduce access to lethal means for minors, with parental consent required for minor-specific interventions.
- Health care providers and hospitals: The bill would broaden eligible providers to include pediatric and family medicine practices, children’s hospitals, hospital emergency departments, nonprofit entities, and other health care agencies or facilities treating youth.
- Tribal communities and Indian Health Service sites: Entities operated by, under contract with, or funded through the Indian Health Service, plus Indian tribes and tribal organizations, would be explicitly eligible to deliver these prevention, treatment, and recovery interventions.
*Would authorize at least $2.0 million per year in grants for fiscal years 2026–2030 to support these activities.*
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Youth treatment grants funded through 2030
The bill would extend the program’s authorization to fiscal years 2026 through 2030. Each year, at least $2 million from the program’s annual appropriation would be set aside for certain youth treatment grants. This would help providers keep or expand services during those years. Changes would start upon enactment.
More suicide prevention help for kids
If enacted, the bill would add suicide prevention to youth substance-use services. More providers could offer it, including children's hospitals, ERs, pediatric and family clinics, and Indian Health Service programs. With parent or guardian consent for minors, providers could counsel parents and give supplies to secure lethal means. It would apply to children, adolescents, and young adults. Changes would start upon enactment.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Rep. James, John [R-MI-10]
MI • R
Cosponsors
Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-6]
MI • D
Sponsored 12/3/2025
Salazar
FL • R
Sponsored 12/3/2025
Craig
MN • D
Sponsored 12/3/2025
Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17]
NY • R
Sponsored 2/23/2026
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