[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2198 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2198

  To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that calls to 
 medical facilities of the Department can be quickly redirected to the 
                         Veterans Crisis Line.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 27, 2017

    Mr. Castro of Texas (for himself and Mr. Takano) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that calls to 
 medical facilities of the Department can be quickly redirected to the 
                         Veterans Crisis Line.

    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 ``Veterans Crisis Line Improvement 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FACILITATION OF REDIRECTION OF CALLS TO DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 
              AFFAIRS MEDICAL FACILITIES TO VETERANS CRISIS LINE.

    Beginning not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall ensure that, upon 
placing a telephone call to the main telephone number of any Department 
of Veterans Affairs medical facility, the first message a caller hears 
provides a mechanism by which the caller can choose to be quickly 
redirected to the Veterans Crisis Line without ending the telephone 
call.
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