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Advancing Antitrust Enforcement, Student Mental Health, and Voting Accessibility.

This resolution sets the stage for considering three key bills that directly impact citizens' lives. It focuses on strengthening antitrust enforcement to protect consumers from excessive prices and lack of choice. Furthermore, it mandates significant investment in school-based behavioral health care for youth and expands funding to facilitate voting access for specific communities.
Key points
Increased scrutiny of large corporate mergers to promote fair competition and protect consumers.
Investment in school-based mental health staff, ensuring students have better access to psychological help and addiction treatment.
Authorization of grant funds to improve voting accessibility for residents of the Northern Mariana Islands and the American Indian consortium.
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VOTING RESULTS
2022-09-28
For 217
Against 212
Abstain 0
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Adopted
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Additional Information
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3843) to promote antitrust enforcement and protect competition through adjusting premerger filing fees, and increasing antitrust enforcement resources; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 7780) to support the behavioral needs of students and youth, invest in the school-based behavioral health workforce, and ensure access to mental health and substance use disorder benefits; providing for consideration of the bill (S. 3969) to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to explicitly authorize distribution of grant funds to the voting accessibility protection and advocacy system of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the system serving the American Indian consortium, and for other purposes; and for other purposes.
Print number: HRES 1396
Sponsor: Rep. DeSaulnier, Mark [D-CA-11]
Process start date: 2022-09-28
Voting date: 2022-09-28
Meeting no: 2
Voting no: 456