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[S. 2487 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.2487

                     One Hundred Fourteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
           the fourth day of January, two thousand and sixteen


                                 An Act


 
 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, and for other purposes.

    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 metrics applicable specifically 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.''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.