H.R. 5553

Summary

H.R. 5553, the CTE Student Mental Health and Wellness Act, was introduced in the House on Sep 23, 2025 by Rep. Nicholas Langworthy (R) with 2 co-sponsors. It was referred to Energy And Commerce, and last saw action on Sep 23, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Record

Text

H.R. 5553 has 2 co-sponsors.

119 HR 5553 IH: CTE Student Mental Health and Wellness Act
 U.S. House of Representatives
 2025-09-23
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 I  119th CONGRESS  1st Session  H. R. 5553  IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES   September 23, 2025   Mr. Langworthy  (for himself,  Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania , and  Ms. Bonamici ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the  Committee on Energy and Commerce    A BILL
To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure area career and technical education schools are eligible for mental health and substance use disorder service grants.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the   CTE Student Mental Health and Wellness Act  .
2.
Mental health and substance use disorder services for students in higher education
Section 520E–2 of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 290bb–36b ) is amended—
(1)
in subsections (a) through (f)—
(A)
by striking  an institution of higher education  each place it appears and inserting  a covered institution ;
(B)
by striking  the institution of higher education  each place it appears and inserting  the covered institution ; and
(C)
by striking  institutions of higher education  each place it appears and inserting  covered institutions ;
(2)
in subsection (c)—
(A)
in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking  Any institution of higher education  and inserting  Any covered institution ; and
(B)
in paragraph (5), by striking  institution of higher education supported  and inserting  covered institution–supported ; and
(3)
by amending subsection (g) to read as follows:
(g)
Covered institution defined
In this section, the term  covered institution  means—
(1)
an area career and technical education school (as defined in section 3 of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006); and
(2)
an institution of higher education (as defined in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965).
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To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure area career and technical education schools are eligible for mental health and substance use disorder service grants.

Sponsors

Rep. Nicholas Langworthy (R) sponsors H.R. 5553, and 2 members have co-sponsored it, all of them from the day it was introduced.

Nicholas Langworthy

Rep. · R–NY-23 · Sponsor

Introduced Sep 23, 2025

Suzanne Bonamici

Rep. · D–OR-1 · Co-sponsor

Joined Sep 23, 2025 · Original

Glenn Thompson

Rep. · R–PA-15 · Co-sponsor

Joined Sep 23, 2025 · Original

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Committees

H.R. 5553 went before 1 committee: Energy and Commerce.

Energy and Commerce

Energy and Commerce

Referred To · Sep 23, 2025 · 1,636 Bills

Actions

H.R. 5553 has taken 2 actions since Sep 23, 2025.

Votes

H.R. 5553 has not gone to a roll call.

Titles

H.R. 5553 goes by 3 titles, 1 of them short titles.

• CTE Student Mental Health and Wellness Act — Display Title
• CTE Student Mental Health and Wellness Act — Short Title(s) as Introduced
• To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure area career and technical education schools are eligible for mental health and substance use disorder service grants. — Official Title as Introduced

Lobbying

3 clients hired 3 firms and 12 registered lobbyists who named H.R. 5553 in 6 quarterly filings, 2025 to 2026. Reported under the Lobbying Disclosure Act; a filing’s income covers everything its registrant worked that quarter, so the amounts below are the filings’, not this bill’s.

Filed under Budget/Appropriations, Education, Health Issues, Medicare/Medicaid, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Veterans, Housing, Insurance.

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Firms

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Lobbyists

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Filings

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Classification

The Congressional Research Service files H.R. 5553 under Health, one of its 31 policy areas.

CRS Subjects

CRS assigns every bill one policy area from its 31; H.R. 5553’s is Health.

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