Female Veteran Suicide Prevention Act Public Law 114–188 Female Veteran Suicide Prevention Act 188 114–188 Statute Compilation United States House of Representatives Office of the Legislative Counsel text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. GPO Statute Compilations USLM converter, version 20210527.1 2021-10-15 Female Veteran Suicide Prevention Act 12103 114 2016-06-30 Female Veteran Suicide Prevention Act [(Public Law 114–188)] [This law has not been amended] [Currency: This publication is a compilation of the text of Public Law 114-188. It was last amended by the public law listed in the As Amended Through note above and below at the bottom of each page of the pdf version and reflects current law through the date of the enactment of the public law listed at https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/comps/] [Note: While this publication does not represent an official version of any Federal statute, substantial efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of its contents. The official version of Federal law is found in the United States Statutes at Large and in the United States Code. The legal effect to be given to the Statutes at Large and the United States Code is established by statute (1 U.S.C. 112, 204).]
AN ACTTo 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. [38 U.S.C. 101 note] 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.” .