College ID cards now carry suicide hotline numbers—a friction-free lifeline
S. 1924 — Improving Mental Health Access for Students Act · Filed by John Kennedy (R-LA) · 8 cosponsors · Introduced Jun 2, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill requires colleges and universities to print suicide prevention hotline numbers (988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, Crisis Text Line, and campus mental health resources) on student ID cards issued after the bill's enactment, or to publish them on the institution's website if the school doesn't issue ID cards. The requirement takes effect one year after the bill becomes law.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative mechanism is a straightforward mandate to disseminate suicide prevention contact information to students via ID cards or institutional websites. It is a direct public-health intervention with no private carve-outs, subsidies, or narrow beneficiaries.
What the text implies
- Institutions may face minor compliance costs (card redesign, website updates), but these are absorbed as routine operational expenses and are not passed to students.
- The one-year implementation window allows institutions to incorporate the requirement into their next ID card printing cycle, minimizing disruption.
- The Secretary's authority to designate replacement crisis organizations if 988 or Crisis Text Line cease to exist ensures the requirement remains functional over time without requiring new legislation.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Students gain direct, always-available access to suicide prevention resources at a moment when they may be in crisis and unable to search for help. The requirement imposes minimal burden on institutions (printing or web publication) and creates no new costs to students. Early intervention access to crisis lines saves lives.
Named in the bill
Higher Education Act of 1965, 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, Crisis Text Line, U.S. Department of Education (Secretary), Colleges and universities
Where it stands
8 cosponsors: 4 Democrats, 4 Republicans.
- Jun 2, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jun 2, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
7 lobbying clients named this bill on 9 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $625,032 in lobbying spend. A filing names 36 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 86% of bills with at least one filing.
John Kennedy, the sponsor, reported $113,800 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- American Psychological Association Services Inc.(fka American Psychological Assn — $340,000 on 1 filing
- American Council on Education — $71,032 on 2 filings
- Inseparable Action Inc. — $60,000 on 1 filing
- National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors — $60,000 on 2 filings
- Crisis Text Line — $50,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 22, 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 (1,345 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 22, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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