Advisory board on program implementation

(a) Establishment (1) In general Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall establish an Advisory Board to manage and administer the grant program under section 3. (2) Duties The Advisory Board shall have responsibility for the following: (A) Evaluating and approving the plans submitted by a State or locality under section 3(b)(2)(A). (B) Ensuring that amounts from a grant under section 3 are used in accordance with section 3(c). (C) Monitoring plans submitted by the Bureau of Prisons in accordance with section 4(3) and advise the Attorney General on compliance to ensure that the Bureau of Prisons uses amounts appropriated to the Bureau of Prisons to carry out section 4. (D) Providing technical assistance to a State or locality to help with the implementation and administration of mental health screening and referral programs established by States and localities receiving a grant under section 3. (E) Creating a working group of mental health care providers, jail or prison administrators, law enforcement officers, and operators of existing mental health screening and referral programs to share best practices on how to create and implement mental health screening and referral programs that have the largest impact on reducing crime rates and improving employment and wage rates for individuals released from prison or jail. (F) Working in coordination with mental health outreach teams established pursuant to section 3(e) to ensure that the grant program under section 3 operates in accordance with that section. (G) Determining whether a State or locality receiving a grant under section 3 is not complying with the requirements of that section. (H) Mandating necessary changes for States and localities not complying with the requirements of section 3 and reducing grant funding to those States and localities if the States and localities do not make those changes. (b) Technical assistance The Advisory Board shall— (1) provide technical assistance to— (A) the States and localities receiving a grant under section 3 in carrying out the requirements of the grant; and (B) the Director of the Bureau of Prisons in carrying out the requirements under section 4; and (2) identify evidence-backed models for the administration of mental health screening and referral programs that the Bureau of Prisons, States, and localities can look to when designing their own programs. (c) Membership (1) In general The Attorney General shall appoint members to serve on the Advisory Board who have expertise in— (A) designing and administering employee mental health screenings and providing mental health referrals for employees; (B) mental health care within prisons or jails; or (C) mental health program evaluation using rigorous experimental and quasi-experimental statistical methods. (2) Number of members The Attorney General— (A) shall appoint to the Advisory Board not less than 3 members; and (B) in addition to the members required under subparagraph (A), may appoint to the Advisory Board as many members as the Attorney General determines appropriate.