; (B) is accessible to students through multiple platforms; (C) provides information to school officials about student health and safety issues, to the extent permitted by the HIPAA privacy regulations; and (D) operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, every day of the year. (2) Transition grants (A) In general The Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, and in consultation with the Secretary of Education, may award grants to States, local governments, Indian Tribes, and Tribal organizations to transition, by not later than 2 years after the award of the grant, a helpline that was in existence on the day before the date of enactment of the Student Mental Health Helpline Act to an agency or subdivision whose primary responsibility relates to health, public health, or education so as to become eligible for grants under paragraph (1). (B) Use of funds A grant under subparagraph (A) shall be used exclusively for costs associated with the transition described in such subparagraph. (b) Application of HIPAA privacy regulations (1) Covered entity A helpline funded under subsection (a)(1) shall be treated as a covered entity (as defined in section 106.103 of title 45, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations)), and information received by the helpline from students contacting the helpline shall be treated as protected health information (as defined in such section 106.103 (or successor regulations)), for purposes of the HIPAA privacy regulations. (2) Additional privacy standards Nothing in this section shall be construed to preempt or otherwise prohibit the application, with respect to a helpline funded under this section, of privacy standards in addition to those applicable under the HIPAA privacy regulations. (c) Eligible grantees To be eligible to receive a grant under subsection (a)(1), an entity shall be an agency or other subdivision— (1) of a State, a local government, an Indian Tribe, or a Tribal organization