1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Increasing Access to Mental Health Act of 2019 . 2. Task Force on Local Mental Health Needs (a) In general Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall establish a task force, to be known as the Task Force on Local Mental Health Needs— (1) to analyze whether, notwithstanding section 1115, section 1903(m)(7), paragraphs (14) and (16) of section 1905(a), and section 1915(l) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1315 , 1396b(m)(7), 1396d(a), 1396n), the prohibition on Federal financial participation under the Medicaid program under title XIX of such Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.) for items and services provided in a hospital, nursing facility, or other institution of more than 16 beds, that is primarily engaged in providing services described in section 1905(i) of such Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1396d(i) ) for persons with mental diseases, precludes political subdivisions of some States from meeting the mental health care needs of individuals residing in such political subdivision; (2) in the case of a political subdivision so precluded, to develop possible solutions for addressing such mental health needs