118th Congress Armed Forces and National Security
H.R. 6330: Veterans’ Sentinel Act
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Summary
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to implement a pilot program establishing a working group in the Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention to collect and analyze data regarding on-campus (i.e., on VA property) suicides and on-campus attempted suicides by veterans. The working group is authorized to implement improvements to the process by which the VA collects data related to on-campus suicides to unify the disparate sources of such data.
The VA must annually brief Congress regarding the progress and findings of the working group.
The bill requires the VA to (1) annually evaluate the statistical trends of suicides and attempted suicides by veterans that occur on VA property, and (2) determine recommendations for preventing such suicides and attempted suicides.
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Finally, the bill requires the Government Accountability Office to submit a report on (1) the actions the Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention has taken to meet the priority objective of the VA with respect to preventing veteran suicide, (2) the challenges the office has faced in making such actions, and (3) recommendations for improvements.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Roll calls
No roll call votes have been held on this bill.
Amendments
No amendments were offered to this bill.
Cosponsors
- André Carson D-INOriginal
- Chris Deluzio D-PAOriginal
- Jake Ellzey R-TXOriginal
- Veronica Escobar D-TXOriginal
- Brian Fitzpatrick R-PAOriginal
- Morgan McGarvey D-KYOriginal
- Derrick Van Orden R-WIOriginal
- Marcus Molinaro R-NY
- Donald Davis D-NC
- Sanford Bishop D-GA
- James Baird R-IN
- Salud Carbajal D-CA
- Ernest Gonzales R-TX
- Nicolas LaLota R-NY
- Seth Moulton D-MA
- Zachary (Zach) Nunn R-IA
- Patrick Ryan D-NY
- Brad Wenstrup R-OH
- August Pfluger R-TX
- Josh Harder D-CA
- Steven Horsford D-NV
- Lois Frankel D-FL
- Andrea Salinas D-OR
- Ed Case D-HI
- Josh Gottheimer D-NJ
- Mike Levin D-CA
- Steve Cohen D-TN
- Susan Wild D-PA
- Raúl Grijalva D-AZ
- Jonathan Jackson D-IL
- Deborah Ross D-NC
- Jared Golden D-ME
- Zoe Lofgren D-CA
Who scored on this bill
- 1Jason Crow SponsorDrew cross-party cosponsors, introduced, reached a cosponsor milestone3 events+12
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History
- Introduced in the House by Jason Crow.
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- Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Introduced in House
- Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.