1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Greater Mental Health Access Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) One in five adults in America experience some form of mental illness, and nearly one in twenty-five adults live with serious mental illness. (2) Access to mental health services is a particularly pervasive problem; 28 million residents of the United States are uninsured and have no access to mental health services. Studies show that nearly 60 percent of adults and 50 percent of children with a mental illness did not receive mental health services in the previous calendar year. (3) The lack of access to mental health services has, in part, contributed to an increase in the suicide rate in the United States, which is now the tenth leading cause of death in this country. (4) In 2017, 47,173 Americans died by suicide. (5) In 2017, there were an estimated 1,400,000 suicide attempts in the United States. (6) Suicide by a loved one often results in suicide contagion