---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 1665h"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "1665h"
heading: "Inpatient and community-based mental health facilities design, construction, and staffing"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/1665h"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Indian Health Care"
  - "Subchapter V–A — Behavioral Health Programs"
  - "Part A — General Programs"
---

# §1665h. Inpatient and community-based mental health facilities design, construction, and staffing


Not later than 1 year after March 23, 2010, the [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17), acting through the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18), may provide, in each area of the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18), not less than 1 inpatient mental health care facility, or the equivalent, for [Indians](/usc/25/1603.md?p=13) with [behavioral health](/usc/25/1603.md?p=2-A) problems. For the purposes of this subsection,[^1] California shall be considered to be 2 [area offices](/usc/25/1603.md?p=1), 1 office whose location shall be considered to encompass the northern area of the State of California and 1 office whose jurisdiction shall be considered to encompass the remainder of the State of California. The [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17) shall consider the possible conversion of existing, underused [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) hospital beds into psychiatric units to meet such need.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “section,”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–437, title VII, § 709, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title X, § 10221(a), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 935.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section 709 of Pub. L. 94–437 is based on section 181 of title I of S. 1790, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, as reported by the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate in Dec. 2009, which was enacted into law by section 10221(a) of Pub. L. 111–148.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1665h, Pub. L. 94–437, title VII, § 709, as added Pub. L. 102–573, title VII, § 702(a), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4579, related to the Pueblo substance abuse treatment project for San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 111–148.