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AttemptedMental Health

Committed to keep pushing the Mental Health Services for Students Act to help schools partner with local mental-health providers and place mental-health services on-site for K-12 students.

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AttemptedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 85%

All three cited sources are reachable and directly support the ATTEMPTED outcome for THIS promise. BillTrack50 confirms verbatim: S.1884 "Mental Health Services for Students Act of 2023," Primary Sponsor Tina Smith (D), Current Status "Dead 01/03/2025," Latest Action "Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (06/08/2023)" — establishing a normal-process failure (referral was the only and final action; no hearing, markup, or vote). The Murphy Senate press release (June 12, 2023) confirms Murphy and Smith reintroduced the bill and contains Smith's quoted statement verbatim, including the original "services health" typo. The Smith Senate press release (June 9, 2023) confirms she co-led the reintroduction with Murphy to strengthen school-based mental health services for K-12 students via school/provider partnerships and on-site services — the page's own language ("would help schools partner with local mental health providers to establish on-site mental health services for students") maps precisely onto the promise text. Together these show genuine, good-faith, leadership-level effort (primary sponsor reintroducing the bill = "keep pushing") that failed within the normal legislative process (majority leadership never scheduled it and it expired with the 118th Congress). That is textbook ATTEMPTED. The rating does not claim CHAMPIONED, so there is no leadership-overstatement to police; ATTEMPTED is if anything the conservative call, since the bill never advanced past introduction/referral. No source is unreachable, no quote is fabricated, and the outcome does not overstate the evidence.

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