[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2487 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2487

 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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 3, 2016

  Mrs. Boxer (for herself, Mrs. Ernst, Mr. Blumenthal, and Mr. Brown) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 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.''.
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