Congress mandates federal tracking of police encounters with people in mental health crisis
H.R. 3621 — Public Safety and Mental Health Reporting Act · Filed by Wesley Bell (D-MO) · 9 cosponsors · Introduced May 29, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill directs the Attorney General to collect annual data on police interactions with people with mental illness, working with the Department of Health and Human Services. The data will be used only for research and statistics, kept confidential, and published annually to Congress and the public. It authorizes funding through 2036.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative mechanism is a data-collection and publication mandate. It creates no new restrictions, subsidies, or carve-outs—only a requirement that the federal government systematize and share information about a known public-safety problem.
What the text implies
- Data collection may reveal systemic disparities in police response to mental health crises, potentially exposing liability or triggering local policy changes.
- Annual publication creates a public record that advocacy groups, researchers, and media can use to pressure jurisdictions with poor outcomes.
- Confidentiality protections (no individual victim identification) balance transparency with privacy, but aggregated data may still allow inference of patterns in specific jurisdictions.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Citizens gain transparency into a critical public-safety gap: how police interact with people experiencing mental health crises. This data enables evidence-based policy, identifies systemic problems, and supports reform efforts that could reduce harm and improve crisis response. No restrictions on citizen rights or remedies are imposed.
Named in the bill
Attorney General, Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Congress
Where it stands
9 cosponsors: 9 Democrats.
- May 29, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- May 29, 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.
Wesley Bell, the sponsor, reported $662,945 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 (1,445 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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