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Veteran Suicide Prevention Act

Official title: To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a review of the deaths of certain veterans who died by suicide, and for other purposes.

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What This Bill Does

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to complete a review of the deaths of all covered veterans who died by suicide during the five-year period preceding the enactment of this bill. Covered veterans are those who received VA hospital care or medical services during the five-year period preceding the death of the veteran.

The VA shall report on the results of the review and make such report publicly available.

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Timeline

  1. House committee actionsReferred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  2. Library of CongressIntroduced in House
  3. House floor actionsReferred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
  4. Introduced
  5. Committee

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