Federal grant program funds mental health crisis training for police and corrections officers
H.R. 2502 — Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act of 2025 · Filed by Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) · 10 cosponsors · Introduced Mar 31, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill creates a federal grant program allowing the Department of Justice to award up to $10 million per year to state, local, and tribal law enforcement and corrections agencies to fund behavioral health crisis response training for their officers. The grants cover the cost of training programs and officer travel/lodging, with the goal of reducing officer injuries and deaths during mental health crisis calls, and reducing harm to civilians experiencing mental health emergencies.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative mechanism is a federal grant program for law enforcement training. It is a straightforward appropriations authorization with no hidden provisions or narrow beneficiaries—the funds flow to public agencies for a stated public-safety purpose.
What the text implies
- Grant eligibility may incentivize agencies to report historical officer deaths/injuries during mental health calls, potentially surfacing previously undocumented incidents and creating pressure for systemic reform.
- The requirement that programs be 'developed in conjunction with healthcare professionals and people with lived experiences of mental health illness' may shift training away from traditional law-enforcement-only curricula toward peer-informed, health-centered crisis response models.
- A 3% administrative-cost cap may limit overhead for smaller rural agencies, potentially creating barriers to grant access for jurisdictions with fewer administrative staff.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The bill funds training that equips officers to de-escalate and safely manage mental health crises, directly reducing deaths and injuries to both officers and civilians. Citizens benefit from safer police responses to the 1-in-10 calls involving mental illness, and from reduced use-of-force outcomes in psychiatric emergencies.
Who stands to gain
- behavioral health training organizations and curriculum providers
- law enforcement and corrections agencies (indirect: reduced liability and operational costs from few
Named in the bill
Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, State law enforcement agencies, Local law enforcement agencies, Tribal law enforcement agencies, Corrections agencies, Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968
Where it stands
10 cosponsors: 8 Democrats, 2 Republicans.
- Mar 31, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Mar 31, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $20,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 110 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Marcy Kaptur, the sponsor, reported $1,210,695 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- National Alliance on Mental Illness — $20,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (7,633 characters) on Jun 3, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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