Home-Based Telemental Health Care Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Salinas, Andrea [D-OR-6]
Introduced
Summary
Creates grants to deliver home-based telemental health to rural underserved populations. The program targets mental health and substance use care delivered remotely and funds broadband, devices, and provider technology to reach people where they live.
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- Rural families and workers in farming, fishing, and forestry could get mental health and substance use services at home through telemental health providers trained in those conditions.
- Public or nonprofit telemental health networks that use psychiatrists or qualified mental health professionals could receive grants to expand services, hire or train staff, and increase remote care capacity.
- Grants may support broadband expansion, patient devices, and provider technology. The program must develop quality metrics and report to Congress 3 years after it starts and every 2 years after.
*Would increase federal spending by up to $10.0 million per year for fiscal years 2025 through 2029.*
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Analyzed Economic Effects
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Home telemental grants for rural residents
If enacted, this bill would create a grant program to expand home-based telemental health and substance use services for rural health professional shortage areas and people working in farming, fishing, or forestry. The Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Health Liaison, would award grants to public or nonprofit telemental health provider networks that use professionals trained in mental health and substance use. Up to $10,000,000 could be made available each year for fiscal years 2025 through 2029. Grant money would pay for home-based telemental visits, develop quality and impact metrics comparing remote and in-person care, and support infrastructure like broadband expansion, patient devices, and provider technology costs. The Secretary, with the Secretary of Agriculture, would report on program impact and care quality not later than three years after the program starts and every two years after that.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Salinas, Andrea [D-OR-6]
OR • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Harshbarger, Diana [R-TN-1]
TN • R
Sponsored 12/17/2025
Gonzalez, V.
TX • D
Sponsored 5/11/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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