House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Increasing Access to Mental Health in Schools Act
Official title: To increase the recruitment and retention of school-based mental health services providers by low-income local educational agencies.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedNov 19, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 19, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6131.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. CHU, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 195, November 19, 2025, Page H4817):Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 19, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 54 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6131, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6131
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- February 24, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of February 24, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
31 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 29 Democrats
2 of 31 cosponsors (6%) are from the other party.
Don Bacon (R-NE), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Shontel Brown (D-OH), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Angie Craig (D-MN), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Jesús García (D-IL), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Al Green (D-TX), Josh Harder (D-CA), Pablo Hernández (D-PR), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), April McClain Delaney (D-MD), Jennifer McClellan (D-VA), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Eric Sorensen (D-IL), Darren Soto (D-FL), Marilyn Strickland (D-WA), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Jill Tokuda (D-HI) and 1 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Judy Chu.
- H.R. 754 (119th) Investing in Main Street Act of 2025
- H.R. 7463 (119th) Foster Youth Postsecondary Education Access and Success Act
- H.R. 12 (119th) Women’s Health Protection Act of 2025
- H.R. 4443 (119th) Asunción Valdivia Heat Illness, Injury, and Fatality Prevention Act of 2025
- H.R. 924 (119th) NO BAN Act
- H.R. 4163 (119th) PRIDE Act of 2025
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.