Hello, SMHCA members. The US Senate passed the Mental Health Access Improvement Act yesterday, and the House passed it today. The bill has been sent to President Biden, who has already voiced support for the law, to be signed into law. Counselors will soon be able to bill Medicare. This has been one of the last remaining areas in federal law in which counselors were not being treated comparably to social workers and psychologists. So many years of hard work and advocacy have paid off. We have all the more to celebrate this holiday season.