9-8-8 Crisis Response Act
Sponsored By: Representative Schrier, Kim [D-WA-8]
Introduced
Summary
Expanded federal support for coordinated mental health crisis response. The 9-8-8 Crisis Response Act raises HHS pilot funding and lets states use Medicaid to cover mobile crisis teams, lifeline call centers, and defined crisis receiving and stabilization facilities.
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- People in crisis gain more local care options. Covered services include qualifying community-based mobile crisis intervention, 24/7 lifeline call center operations, and crisis facilities with 23-hour observation and 48-hour stabilization beds.
- States can opt into Medicaid coverage for these services and receive the specified federal match rate of 85 percent for the listed items. The changes take effect as if included in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
- Crisis providers get a defined facility model. A “crisis receiving and stabilization facility” must be licensed, operate 24/7, offer sliding-scale payment without rejecting patients for payment ability or prior forensic status, support no-wrong-door admissions, and keep average stays under 150 hours.
- Federal funding for the pilot is increased to $10 million for each of fiscal years 2025 and 2026 and $100 million for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2029. The law also appropriates $5 million to the Secretary for related purposes.
*Increases federal spending by expanding dedicated pilot funding to $10 million for 2025–26 and $100 million annually for 2027–29 and by adding a $5 million appropriation.*
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
More Medicaid crisis services access
This bill would let states add new Medicaid-covered crisis services. States could let Medicaid pay for mobile crisis teams, 24/7 lifeline call centers, and services from crisis receiving and stabilization facilities. Those facilities would need state licensure, 23-hour observation beds, 48-hour psychiatric stabilization beds (including withdrawal management and 24-hour medical monitoring), sliding-scale payment without discrimination, no-wrong-door admission for law enforcement and EMS, and an average stay under 150 hours. If enacted, the federal Medicaid match for lifeline call centers and those stabilization services would be set at 85 percent, the bill would appropriate $5 million to HHS to help states implement the option, and the changes would take effect as if included in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
More grant money for crisis pilots
This bill would change funding for the Mental Health Crisis Response Partnership Pilot Program. It would provide $10 million in FY2025 and $10 million in FY2026, and $100 million in each of FY2027, FY2028, and FY2029. If enacted, this would concentrate much larger federal grants to support pilot activities later in the decade.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Schrier, Kim [D-WA-8]
WA • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Valadao, David G. [R-CA-22]
CA • R
Sponsored 9/3/2026
Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9]
WA • D
Sponsored 9/3/2026
Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1]
PA • R
Sponsored 9/3/2026
Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-7]
CA • D
Sponsored 9/3/2026
Rep. Trahan, Lori [D-MA-3]
MA • D
Sponsored 9/3/2026
Rep. McClellan, Jennifer L. [D-VA-4]
VA • D
Sponsored 9/3/2026
Rep. Barragán, Nanette Diaz [D-CA-44]
CA • D
Sponsored 9/3/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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