The House passed (220-205) H.R.7780, the Mental Health Matters Act.

The bill establishes new grant programs to improve access to school-based mental health services, including to recruit and train school-based mental health providers at high-need schools and improve the behavioral health of children in Head Start. It also includes provisions to make postsecondary education more accessible to students with disabilities and to provide mental health parity in employer-sponsored health insurance.

Democrats say the bill will provide critical mental health resources to schools from pre-kindergarten through college, provide equity for disabled students seeking to enter college, and provide the enforcement tools needed to ensure mental health parity in employer-sponsored health insurance plans.

Republicans say it establishes new programs without sufficient oversight or guardrails, fails to put the rights of parents first and represents a far-left push for woke politics in schools with regard to radical LGBT ideologies, and provides a bonanza for lawyers in seeking mental health parity in insurance. 

Should Congress pass H.R.7780, the Mental Health Matters Act?