DHS establishes mental health program to address law enforcement suicide crisis
S. 2645 — DHS Suicide Prevention and Resiliency for Law Enforcement Act · Filed by Gary Peters (D-MI) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Aug 1, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill establishes a Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Program within the Department of Homeland Security to address suicide and mental health crises among DHS law enforcement officers and agents. The program will collect data on suicides and mental health trends, provide training and peer support, partner with community and faith-based organizations for counseling services, and require DHS components to improve mental health resources and reduce stigma around seeking help—all while protecting employee privacy and preventing retaliation against officers who seek mental health assistance.
Why we flagged it
The bill's operative mechanism is establishing a mental health infrastructure and data collection system within DHS, with mandatory training, peer support networks, and anti-retaliation protections. This is fundamentally a workplace mental health and suicide prevention measure, not a regulatory or financial carve-out.
What the text implies
- The bill requires DHS to establish partnerships with faith-based organizations for mental health services, potentially expanding federal funding or referral relationships with religious entities in a law enforcement context.
- Mandatory annual surveys and data collection on suicide attempts (to the extent possible) may create privacy tensions despite confidentiality language—officers may perceive surveillance risk even if legally protected.
- The Peer-to-Peer Support Program Advisory Council can include 'outside agency organizations' and create cross-agency peer support networks, potentially expanding DHS mental health infrastructure beyond its direct workforce.
- Requirement that DHS components report all suicide incidents to a federal data collection program may create institutional pressure to investigate or document suicides in ways that deter reporting or create liability concerns for agencies.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The bill creates a structured, evidence-based mental health support system for federal law enforcement with explicit protections against retaliation for seeking help, confidentiality safeguards, and mandatory training. These provisions directly reduce barriers to care and address a documented public health crisis (law enforcement suicide), benefiting both officers and the public they serve.
Who stands to gain
- mental health service providers and counseling programs (contracted or partnered)
- faith-based and community-based organizations providing mental health services
- pharmaceutical companies (if mental health treatment increases medication use)
Named in the bill
Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Secret Service, Transportation Security Administration, Chief Medical Officer, Workplace Health and Wellness Coordinator, Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection Act (Public Law 116–143), Privacy Act of 1974, Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Aug 1, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Aug 1, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 lobbying clients named this bill on 2 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $370,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 53 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 41% of bills with at least one filing.
Gary Peters, the sponsor, reported $-186,100 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- American Psychological Association Services Inc.(fka American Psychological Assn — $340,000 on 1 filing
- Mississippi County, Arkansas — $30,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 16, 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 (13,210 characters) on Aug 18, 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 16, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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