HR6396-119

What This Bill Does

The Kid PROOF Act of 2025 amends section 7102(c) of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act. It expands the existing children, adolescents, and young adults substance-abuse grant authority to include suicide prevention and recovery, adds pediatric health care agencies, health care sites, facilities, nonprofit providers, pediatric and family medicine practices, child and adolescent mental health specialists, children hospitals, hospital emergency departments, and Indian Health Service facilities or programs as eligible entities, and authorizes interventions with parent or guardian consent. Those interventions include counseling parents or legal guardians on best practices to prevent overdose and suicide and furnishing supplies to prevent misuse of lethal means commonly used in overdose or suicide. The bill also reauthorizes the program for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 and requires at least $2,000,000 each year to be allocated to the covered intervention grants.

Who Benefits and How

Children, adolescents, and young adults at risk of suicide or overdose benefit because grant-funded providers can combine behavioral health treatment, overdose prevention, suicide prevention, parent counseling, and lethal-means safety supplies. Parents and legal guardians benefit from counseling and tangible prevention tools. Pediatric providers, children hospitals, emergency departments, IHS facilities, Tribal organizations, and child mental health specialists benefit because the bill makes them eligible for federal grant funding. Communities served by Tribal health programs benefit from explicit inclusion of IHS and Tribal delivery channels.

Who Bears the Burden and How

HHS and SAMHSA grant administrators must update eligibility rules, run awards for FY2026 through FY2030, and ensure the $2,000,000 annual allocation is met. Providers must obtain parent or guardian consent for minor interventions and administer counseling or safety-supply programs. Federal taxpayers fund the reauthorized grants. Health care entities receiving funds take on grant compliance and reporting obligations.

Key Provisions

• Amends SUPPORT Act grant authority to include suicide prevention for children, adolescents, and young adults.
• Expands eligible entities to pediatric providers, children hospitals, emergency departments, mental health specialists, nonprofit providers, and IHS or Tribal health programs.
• Authorizes parent or guardian counseling and supplies to prevent misuse of lethal means tied to overdose or suicide.
• Extends authorization from fiscal years 2026 through 2030.
• Requires at least $2,000,000 each fiscal year for specified intervention grants.