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This bill, the Community Mental Health Services Block Grant Reauthorization Act, amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the community mental health services block grant program. The key provisions include: 1) Increasing the annual funding for the block grant program from $532,571,000 to $857,571,000 for fiscal years 2023 through 2027. 2) Requiring states to allocate at least 5% of their block grant funding to support evidence-based crisis care services, such as crisis call centers, mobile crisis teams, and crisis stabilization programs. States have the flexibility to instead allocate at least 10% of their funding to these services over two consecutive fiscal years. The purpose of these changes is to strengthen the community-based mental health services available to individuals with serious mental disorders and children with serious mental and emotional disturbances.

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