42 U.S.C. § 290bb–44 — Assertive community treatment grant program

(a) In general: The Assistant Secretary gives grants to eligible entities to (1) start assertive community treatment programs for adults with serious mental illness, or (2) keep or grow programs that already exist. (b) Eligible entities: To qualify, an organization must be a state, part of a state, an Indian tribe or tribal organization, a mental health system, a health care facility, or another entity the Assistant Secretary approves. (c) Special consideration: When choosing grantees, the Assistant Secretary may favor programs likely to cut hospital stays, homelessness, and criminal justice involvement while improving patients' health and social outcomes. (d) Additional activities: The Assistant Secretary must (1) by the end of fiscal year 2026, report to Congress evaluating the program, covering (A) cost savings and outcomes like death, suicide, substance use, hospitalization, and service use; (B) patients' criminal justice involvement; (C) patients' homelessness rates; and (D) patient and family satisfaction; and (2) give grant recipients information, training, and technical assistance to help them establish, keep, or grow their programs. (e) Authorization of appropriations (1) In general: Congress authorized $9,000,000 for each fiscal year 2023 through 2027. (2) Use of certain funds: No more than 5 percent of that money each year can go toward the reporting work in subsection (d).