[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 8068]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 FEMALE VETERAN SUICIDE PREVENTION ACT

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Veterans' Affairs be discharged from further consideration 
of S. 2487 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (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.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be read a third 
time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and 
laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 2487) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                                S. 2487

       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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