[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2915 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2915

   To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to identify mental health care and suicide prevention 
 programs and metrics that are effective in treating women veterans as 
       part of the evaluation of such programs by the Secretary.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 25, 2015

  Ms. Brownley of California introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to identify mental health care and suicide prevention 
 programs and metrics that are effective in treating women veterans as 
       part of the evaluation of such programs by the Secretary.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Female Veteran Suicide Prevention 
Act''.

SEC. 2. SPECIFIC CONSIDERATION OF WOMEN VETERANS IN EVALUATION OF 
              DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS MENTAL HEALTH CARE AND 
              SUICIDE PREVENTION PROGRAMS.

    Section 1709B(a)(2) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by inserting before the semicolon 
        the following: ``, including specific metrics applicable to 
        women'';
            (2) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (3) in subparagraph (E), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; and''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
            ``(F) identify the mental health care and suicide 
        prevention programs conducted by the Secretary that are most 
        effective for women veterans and such programs with the highest 
        satisfaction rates among women veterans.''.
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