{"id":25672,"date":"2024-12-24T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&p=25672"},"modified":"2025-01-03T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T15:52:07","slug":"sen-ossoffs-bipartisan-bill-to-strengthen-servicemembers-access-to-mental-health-care-signed-into-law","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoffs-bipartisan-bill-to-strengthen-servicemembers-access-to-mental-health-care-signed-into-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff\u2019s Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen Servicemembers\u2019 Access to Mental Health Care Signed into Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C. <\/em>\u2014 <\/strong>U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff\u2019s bipartisan bill to expand servicemembers\u2019 access to mental health care is now law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sens. Ossoff and Mike Braun (R-IN) introduced the bipartisan Military Mental Health Professionals Support Act<\/em> to help ensure servicemembers have access to the vital mental health care services they deserve by recruiting more mental health care providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, mental and behavioral health specialists count toward caps on military personnel by rank, impacting recruitment and retention of mental health care providers. Sen. Ossoff\u2019s bipartisan law will cut red tape by removing those caps and permitting more specialists to provide vital care to servicemembers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff\u2019s Military Mental Health Professionals Support Act<\/em> passed Congress as part of this year\u2019s National Defense Authorization Act<\/em>, which was signed into law yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe impediment to accessing mental health services for military families is a real concern. That\u2019s why I brought Republicans and Democrats together to pass this legislation into law, which will ensure our servicemembers, who make tremendous sacrifices in our country\u2019s defense, can access the mental health services they need while they defend our nation,\u201d Sen. Ossoff said<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff continues working to expand mental health care options for Georgians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this fall, Sen. Ossoff delivered<\/a> Federal resources through the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act<\/em> to help hire licensed mental health providers that will better support students in and around Fulton, Gwinnett, Macon-Bibb, and Muscogee Counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year, Sens. Ossoff and Kevin Cramer (R-ND)\u2019s bipartisan Military Families Mental Health Services Act <\/em>became law<\/a> to help more military families access vital mental health care services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Washington, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff\u2019s bipartisan bill to expand servicemembers\u2019 access to mental health care is now law. Sens. Ossoff and Mike Braun (R-IN) introduced the bipartisan Military Mental Health Professionals Support Act to help ensure servicemembers have access to the vital mental health care services they deserve by recruiting more mental health care providers. Currently, mental […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25672","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/25672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/25672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25674,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/25672\/revisions\/25674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}