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    <item congress="119" measure-type="s" measure-number="702" measure-id="id119s702" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2025-02-25" update-date="2025-05-08">
        <title>Veterans Mental Health and Addiction Therapy Quality of Care Act</title>
        <summary summary-id="id119s702v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2025-05-08">
            <action-date>2025-02-25</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Veterans Mental Health and Addiction Therapy Quality of Care Act</strong></p><p>This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to seek to enter into an agreement with an independent and objective organization to study the difference in quality of mental health and addiction therapy care provided by the VA compared to non-VA providers across various modalities. The organization must publish its findings publicly.</p>]]></summary-text>
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