YourVoice.Now Summary
Criminal Justice & Due ProcessCivil LibertiesTransparency & AccountabilitySome mental health and addiction 911 calls could get an unarmed crisis team instead of police — where grants pay for one
Criminal Justice & Due Process
Where a local government gets one of these grants, some 911 calls would go to a trained team with no guns. These are calls about mental health, drug use, or homeless people, with no clear violence. Police would still take calls that involve violence.
Civil Liberties
Programs paid for with these grants could not shut people out or treat them unfairly. That covers race, color, faith, national origin, sex, disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
Transparency & Accountability
Each program would report twice a year. It would say how many 911 calls it took, who it helped, how fast it got there, and what it cost. The health agency would sum these up for Congress twice a year.
More about this bill
If someone calls 911 about a mental health crisis, homelessness, addiction, or public drunkenness, a trained team without guns could come instead of police. That would happen only where a state, county, city, or tribe wins a federal health grant to set up such a team. The bill does not set a dollar amount for the grants. Teams of two or more, such as nurses, social workers, counselors, or medics, would go to calls with no obvious violence. They could not carry guns. Police would not oversee them. They could calm things down, check on the person, and drive them to care. That could mean a clinic or crisis center instead of a jail or emergency room. Grants could also pay to train 911 call takers to sort calls. Teams could also link up with the 988 crisis line.
Congressional Summary
911 Community Crisis Responders Act of 2025 This bill authorizes grants to dispatch unarmed, specialized health care or social service providers to respond to nonviolent emergency calls instead of law enforcement officers. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration may award such grants to state, territorial, local, and tribal governments (including consortia of tribal governments). Recipients may use the grants for hiring and training necessary staff, working with 9-1-1 dispatchers and 9-8-8 call centers to appropriately dispatch services in response to nonviolent emergency calls, and connecting individuals with local health and social service providers. (The 9-8-8 system provides callers with mental health or suicide crisis support and resources.)
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2025-05-29
- Date Added
- 2026-10-17
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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