# 119-hr-8122: 9–8–8 Connect Act

119-hr-8122, 9–8–8 Connect Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Raskin, Jamie [D-MD-8] (D-MD); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-04-21).

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- As of: 2026-04-21
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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-8122
- Congress: 119
- Title: 9–8–8 Connect Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-03-26
- Sponsor: Rep. Raskin, Jamie [D-MD-8] (D-MD)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Health
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## Summary

**Modernize and expand access to the 9-8-8 suicide and mental health crisis hotline.** This bill would fund follow-up care by crisis centers and require carriers and regulators to make calls and texts to 9-8-8 reliably reachable and routable. - Families and people in crisis would get more post-contact support such as check-ins, outreach to ensure engagement with services, coordination with mobile crisis teams, and referrals to appropriate care. - Crisis centers would become eligible for follow-up grants only if they are members of the coordinated crisis center network, and grants would include technical assistance and funds targeted by need and service gaps. - Mobile crisis teams and short-term crisis sites like urgent behavioral clinics and emergency departments are explicitly included as points that can trigger follow-up services for people at risk. - Commercial mobile service providers would have to transmit all 9-8-8 calls and texts, including some non-service-initialized handsets on compliant radio protocols, and the bill adds 9-8-8 into dialing and routing rules with a delayed applicability window for infrastructure upgrades. *Would authorize $30 million for fiscal year 2027 for the follow-up grant program, increasing federal spending.*

## Cosponsors (1)

- Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1] (R-PA), 2026-03-26T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Rules to make 9-8-8 work on phones: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would require the FCC to write rules within 270 days to make sure all commercial mobile providers send calls and texts to 9-8-8. The rules would include texts and calls from phones without active service when they use a provider's radio protocol. Providers would have one year a…
- Grants for crisis center follow-up: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would create a grant program to pay crisis centers for follow-up care after suicide-prevention or crisis contacts. Only crisis centers in the national crisis center network would be eligible. The Department of Health would pick centers based on need, capacity, and service gaps…
- Direct 9-8-8 dialing on business phones: mixed, medium. If enacted, the bill would require multi-line telephone systems to support direct dialing of 9-8-8 starting two years after enactment. Systems installed before that two-year date would be exempt from one requirement if they cannot be reconfigured without hardware or software upgrades. This would he…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act
- 119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025
- 119-hr-8839: Lainie Jones Comprehensive Cancer Survivorship Act of 2026
- 119-hr-10280: 9–8–8 Implementation Act of 2026
- 119-hr-7481: Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026
- 119-hr-7333: Family Violence Prevention and Services Improvement Act of 2026

## Sources
- [119-hr-8122 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8122)

## Related
- [119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7977)
- [119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3151)
- [119-hr-8839: Lainie Jones Comprehensive Cancer Survivorship Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-8839)
- [119-hr-10280: 9–8–8 Implementation Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-10280)
- [119-hr-7481: Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7481)
- [119-hr-7333: Family Violence Prevention and Services Improvement Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7333)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-8122 (as of 2026-04-21).