RAYS Act

This bill would require school districts that receive federal education funds and issue ID cards to secondary school students to put contact information for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, the Crisis Text Line, and a state or local suicide prevention hotline (if available) on those cards. Districts that do not issue student ID cards would instead 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 a listed service stops operating, and would have to run outreach campaigns about these resources with the Department of Health and Human Services. The requirements would take effect one year after the bill becomes law and would not require changes to cards issued before then.

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Sponsors

• Jim Banks Republican sponsor
• 9 cosponsors