Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Suicide Prevention Research INnovaTion Act” or the “SPRINT Act”.
Suicide Prevention Research INnovaTion Act
A BILL
To provide funding to the National Institute of Mental Health to support suicide prevention and brain research, including funding for the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.
Sec. 2 Suicide prevention and brain research
Subpart 16 of part C of title IV of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 285p et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“464U–1. Suicide prevention and brain research
“(a) In general—The Director of the National Institute of Mental Health shall use the funds made available to such Institute pursuant to subsection (b) exclusively for the purpose of conducting and supporting—
“(1) research on the determinants of self-directed and other violence associated with mental illness, including studies designed to reduce the risk of self-harm, suicide, and interpersonal violence, especially in rural communities with a shortage of mental health services; and
“(2) brain research through the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.
“(b) Authorization of appropriations—In addition to amounts otherwise made available to the National Institute of Mental Health, including amounts appropriated pursuant to section 402A(a), there are authorized to be appropriated to such Institute $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2015 through 2019 to carry out this section.”