1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act of 2023 . 2. Findings; purpose (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Law enforcement and corrections officers routinely respond to emergencies involving individuals suffering from a mental health crisis. (2) Recent statistics have shown that as many as— (A) 1 in every 10 calls for police response involve a person suffering from a mental illness; (B) 1 in every 4 people killed by police suffer from a mental health problem; and (C) 1 in 3 people transported to a hospital emergency room for psychiatric reasons are taken by the police. (3) Law enforcement response calls to individuals suffering from substance use disorder have increased during the current opioid epidemic. (4) There is a need to ensure that law enforcement officers have access to proper evidence-based training in responding to mental health crises. (5) Proper training for response to individuals suffering from a mental health crisis can better protect the safety of the general public and law enforcement officers. (6) Law enforcement and corrections officers in the United States can better serve their communities if the officers receive training to effectively and safely resolve the mental health crises. (b) Purpose The purpose of this Act is to provide grants to State, local, and Tribal law enforcement agencies and corrections agencies to obtain behavioral health crisis response training for law enforcement officers and corrections officers to— (1) better train law enforcement officers and corrections officers to resolve behavioral health crisis situations; (2) reduce the number of law enforcement officers and corrections officers killed or injured while responding to a behavioral health crisis