RAYS Act

This bill would require local school districts that receive federal funds and issue ID cards to secondary school students to include contact information for the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, the Crisis Text Line, and a state or local suicide prevention hotline if available. Districts that do not issue student ID cards would have to post this information on a public website and on computer portals and software students regularly use. The U.S. Secretary of Education could name replacement services if either national service stops operating, and would have to run outreach campaigns about these resources with the Department of Health and Human Services. The changes would take effect one year after the bill becomes law and would apply to ID cards issued for school years after that date.

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Sponsors

• Troy A. Carter Democrat sponsor
• 9 cosponsors