Federal grants expand mental health care for LGBTQ+ youth, bar conversion therapy
H.R. 3757 — Pride In Mental Health Act of 2025 · Filed by Sharice Davids (D-KS) · 167 cosponsors · Introduced Jun 5, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill creates a federal grant program to fund mental health services, crisis intervention, and support resources specifically for LGBTQ+ youth and their families. It explicitly prohibits the use of grant funds for conversion therapy, requires the federal government to review and restore LGBTQ+-focused mental health publications that may have been removed, establishes a federal survey on mental health disparities among LGBTQ+ youth, and mandates a report on mental health care for LGBTQ+ youth in foster care and social services. The bill authorizes $20 million annually from 2026–2030.
Why we flagged it
The bill's operative mechanism is a straightforward federal grant program to expand mental health services for an underserved population, coupled with explicit prohibitions on harmful practices and requirements to restore and improve federal health information. This is routine public health legislation, not a carve-out, subsidy, or deregulation.
What the text implies
- The bill's requirement to 'restore' SAMHSA publications from January 19, 2025 suggests prior removal or suppression of LGBTQ+-focused mental health guidance; this provision implicitly documents a policy reversal and restores evidence-based public health information.
- The conversion therapy definition ties the prohibition to monetary compensation, meaning non-compensated 'conversion therapy' by unlicensed individuals or religious counselors may fall outside the grant restriction—a potential loophole for faith-based providers receiving no direct payment.
- The federal survey and data collection provisions create a new longitudinal dataset on LGBTQ+ youth mental health; this may enable future policy interventions but also concentrates identifiable health data in federal systems, requiring robust privacy protections (which the bill does provide).
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
LGBTQ+ youth face documented elevated rates of depression, anxiety, suicidality, and substance abuse; this bill funds evidence-based mental health services, crisis intervention, and family support while explicitly barring harmful conversion therapy. The public health infrastructure gain and protection against a discredited practice benefit a vulnerable population and the broader public health system.
Who stands to gain
- mental health service providers (nonprofits, community health centers, hospitals)
- research institutions conducting LGBTQ+ mental health studies
- state and local health departments administering grants
Named in the bill
Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA), National Institute of Mental Health, Administration for Children and Families, House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Where it stands
167 cosponsors: 167 Democrats.
- Jun 5, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jun 5, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
3 lobbying clients named this bill on 5 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $2,175,812 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 61% of bills with at least one filing.
Sharice Davids, the sponsor, reported $904,155 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- American Academy of Family Physicians — $1,715,904 on 2 filings
- Human Rights Campaign — $439,908 on 2 filings
- 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 (9,940 characters) on May 19, 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 Dec 2025 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.
- H.R. 3757 on Congress.gov
- Actions and status history
- Cosponsors (167)
- Bill text the analysis read
- American Academy of Family Physicians — LDA filing, 2026 Q2
- Human Rights Campaign — LDA filing, 2026 Q2
- National Alliance on Mental Illness — LDA filing, 2026 Q2
- Sharice Davids — FEC candidate receipts, 2026 cycle
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