MENTAL HEALTH

Amendments

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: improve access of veterans to medical services by improving scheduling, staff training and hiring, access to care from non-departmental providers, and administrative matters (S. 2450), S3609, S3619 [11JN], S3672 [12JN]

Veterans: improve provision of medical services and benefits (S. 1982), S1050, S1051, S1052, S1092, S1093, S1131 [25FE], S1168, S1178, S1179, S1180, S1181, S1182, S1184, S1185 [26FE], S1240, S1241, S1242, S1243, S1244, S1245, S1247, S1250, S1251, S1252 [27FE]

Anecdotes

Post-traumatic stress disorder: several individuals, H5449, H5450 [18JN]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 3230, Veteran Access to Care Act, H5429 [18JN]

——— H.R. 3230, Veterans’ Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act, S3805 [18JN]

Articles and editorials

National Guild of Hypnotists Offers Solutions to Daily Stress, E1803 [12DE]

‘Out of Options’—Veterans With PTSD Hit Pot Underground, H3344 [30AP]

Overloaded Vets Bill Would Be a Costly Letdown (excerpt), S1147 [26FE]

Supersized Veterans’ Bill Promises Much—Mostly Broken Promises, S1162 [26FE]

Bills and resolutions

Armed Forces: enhance participation of mental health professionals in boards for the correction of military records and boards for the review of the discharge or dismissal of members of the Armed Forces (see S. 2217), S2194 [7AP]

——— establish an online significant event tracker system for tracking, reporting, and summarizing exposures of members to traumatic events (see S. 2368), S3237 [21MY] (see S. 2730), S5216 [31JY] (see H.R. 5336), H7182 [31JY]

——— expand and improve care to members and veterans with mental health disorders, review characterization of discharges, and establish a loan repayment program for certain VA psychiatrists (see S. 2182), S1819 [27MR] (see H.R. 5048), H6034 [9JY]

——— improve access to mental health services under TRICARE (see S. 2276), S2613 [1MY] (see H.R. 4656), H4064 [13MY]

——— provide for behavioral health treatment for developmental disabilities under TRICARE (see S. 2333), S3028 [14MY] (see H.R. 4630), H4058 [9MY]

——— require mental health assessments before enlistment or commissioning as an officer (see S. 2231), S2327 [9AP] (see H.R. 4305), H2695 [26MR]

Children and youth: eliminate the use of valid court orders to secure lockup for status offenses which would not be judicial issues if the offender were not a juvenile (see S. 2874), S5782 [18SE] (see H.R. 4123), H2097 [28FE]

——— ensure juveniles adjudicated in Federal delinquency proceedings are not subject to solitary confinement while committed to juvenile facilities (see H.R. 4124), H2097 [28FE]

——— provide for a Youth Mental Health Research Network (see H.R. 4170), H2255 [6MR]

Correctional institutions: develop and implement national standards for the use of solitary confinement in prisons, jails, and juvenile detention facilities (see H.R. 4618), H4015 [8MY]

Courts: prohibit recovery of damages in certain wrongful birth and wrongful life civil actions (see H.R. 4698), H4783 [21MY]

Dept. of Defense: conduct periodic mental health assessments and improve mental health services for Armed Forces members and submit reports relative to mental health (see S. 2300), S2796 [7MY]

——— establish programs to track, retain, and analyze information relative to suicides involving Armed Forces Reserve components members and dependents of Armed Forces members (see H.R. 4504), H3240 [28AP]

——— improve consistency of data collection, reporting, and assessment in connection with suicide prevention efforts (see S. 2357), S3184 [20MY]

Dept. of Education: increase recruitment and retention of school counselors, social workers, psychologists, and other qualified psychologists by low-income local educational agencies (see S. 2753), S5217 [31JY]

——— protect students from inappropriate seclusion and physical restraint in schools (see S. 2036), S1001 [24FE]

——— require institutions of higher education to have an independent advocate for campus sexual assault prevention and response (see S. 2695), S5134 [30JY] (see H.R. 5277), H7125 [30JY]

Dept. of HHS: authorize grants for Alzheimer’s disease research (see H.R. 4798), H5068 [2JN]

——— provide for enhanced treatment, support, services, and research for individuals with autism spectrum disorders and their families (see H.R. 4010), H1686 [6FE]

——— provide research, training, and navigator services to youth and young adults on the verge of aging out of the secondary education system (see H.R. 5436), H7433 [10SE]

——— reauthorize certain provisions relating to autism and establish a National Autism Spectrum Disorder Initiative (see S. 2449), S3507 [9JN] (see H.R. 4631), H4058 [9MY]

Dept. of Justice: appoint counsel for unaccompanied alien children and aliens with serious mental disabilities (see H.R. 4936), H5639 [23JN]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: carry out pilot program to reduce shortage of psychiatrists in Veterans Health Administration by offering competitive employment incentives to certain psychiatrists (see H.R. 4234), H2432 [13MR]

——— carry out pilot programs to reduce shortage of psychiatrists by repaying loans of certain psychiatrists to provide housing allowances to health care providers in rural clinics (see S. 2425), S3424 [4JN]

——— establish presumption of service connection for mental health conditions related to military sexual trauma (see H.R. 4344), H2744 [27MR]

——— extend and modify the pilot program on assisted living services for veterans with traumatic brain injury (see S. 2607), S4502 [15JY] (see S. 3014), S6788 [12DE] (see H.R. 4276), H2488 [18MR]

——— extend the pilot program on assisted living services for veterans with traumatic brain injury (see H.R. 3958), H1510 [29JA]

——— improve provision of health care to veterans in rural and highly rural areas (see S. 2009), S852 [10FE]

——— improve research of Gulf War Illness and provide for the independent operation of the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses (see H.R. 4261), H2484 [14MR]

——— provide for additional qualification requirements for individuals appointed to marriage and family therapist positions (see H.R. 5398), H7241 [1AU]

Depts. of Defense and Veterans Affairs: evaluate mental health care and suicide prevention programs, review discharge or separation of certain individuals, and require a loan repayment pilot program for psychiatrists (see S. 2930), S6022 [17NO] (see H.R. 5059), H6105 [10JY]

Diseases: develop international plans of action to address Alzheimer’s disease and dementia (see H. Res. 489), H1937 [25FE]

Firearms: allow family members and close associates of suspected unstable individuals to take legal actions to prevent such individuals from purchasing or possessing firearms (see S. 2445), S3475 [5JN] (see H.R. 4806), H5072 [5JN]

——— express that gun violence is a public health issue and call for legislation that protects the Second Amendment, includes background checks, improves mental health, and makes gun trafficking a Federal crime (see H. Res. 468), H1511 [29JA]

——— incentivize State reporting systems that allow submittal of information by mental health professionals on individuals deemed dangerous relative to firearms possession (see H.R. 4784), H5063 [30MY]

——— strengthen mental health infrastructure and firearm prohibitions for at-risk individuals, and improve reporting of mental health records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (see S. 2872), S5782 [18SE] (see H.R. 4783), H5063 [30MY]

Health: reauthorize certain programs related to traumatic brain injury and trauma research (see S. 2539), S4153 [26JN]

Health care facilities: maximize access of individuals with mental illness to community-based services and strengthen the impact of such services (see H.R. 4574), H3446 [6MY]

Human rights: authorizing appropriations for domestic and foreign treatment centers for victims of torture (see H.R. 4987), H5817 [26JN]

Isla Vista, CA: condemn rampage and mass shooting, offer condolences to the community, the victims, and their families, and call for action to prevent such tragedies in the future (see H. Res. 608), H5064 [30MY]

Law enforcement: establish grant program to help State and local law enforcement agencies reduce risk of injury and death from wandering characteristics of some children with autism and other disabilities (see S. 2386), S3293 [22MY] (see H.R. 5209), H6859 [25JY]

Medicaid: provide a standard definition of therapeutic foster care services (see H.R. 4016), H1686 [6FE]

Mental Health Month: designate (see H. Res. 556), H3292 [29AP]

Mexico: call for release of Andrew P. Tahmooressi (see H. Res. 620), H5319 [11JN]

National Institute of Mental Health: provide funding to support suicide prevention and brain research, including the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative (see S. 2035), S1001 [24FE] (see H.R. 4075), H1937 [25FE]

National Mental Health No Stigma Week: designate (see H. Res. 572), H3446 [6MY]

National Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Month: designate (see S. Res. 481), S3898 [23JN]

National Professional Social Work Month: support goals and ideals (see S. Res. 386), S1653 [13MR]

National Rehabilitation Counselors Appreciation Day: designate (see S. Res. 388), S1653 [13MR]

National School Counseling Week: designate (see S. Res. 342), S655 [30JA] (see H. Res. 471), H1544 [3FE]

National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month: support goals and ideals and commend the Depts. of Defense and Veterans Affairs for raising awareness of life-saving resources available to veterans and servicemembers (see H. Res. 725), H7528 [15SE]

NIH: expand, intensify, and coordinate programs and activities relative to Tourette syndrome (see S. 2851), S5781 [18SE] (see H.R. 4221), H2360 [12MR]

——— submit an annual budget estimate for Alzheimer’s disease initiatives (see S. 2192), S1923 [1AP] (see H.R. 4351), H2801 [1AP]

Office of Science and Technology Policy: establish a grant program to support U.S.-Israeli cooperation for neuroscience-related research (see H.R. 4472), H3196 [10AP]

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 631), H5557 [19JN]

Professional Social Work Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 519), H2433 [13MR]

School Social Work Week: designate (see H. Res. 498), H2148 [4MR]

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: award grants to States to expand access to clinically appropriate services for opioid abuse, dependence or addiction (see H.R. 5339), H7182 [31JY]

Veterans: improve provision of medical services and benefits (see S. 1950), S439 [16JA] (see S. 1982), S702 [3FE]

Veterans Expedited Recovery Commission: establish to examine mental health treatment models and potential benefits of incorporating certain alternative treatments (see H.R. 4977), H5816 [26JN]

World Social Work Day: support goals and ideals (see S. Res. 386), S1653 [13MR] (see H. Res. 519), H2433 [13MR]

Cloture motions

Veterans: improve provision of medical services and benefits (S. 1982), S1168 [26FE]

——— improve provision of medical services and benefits (S. 1982), motion to proceed, S940 [12FE], S1027 [25FE]

Letters

National Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month: Alexander Dennis, H4816 [22MY]

Veterans health care access: several veterans organizations, S4739 [23JY], S4855 [24JY]

Memorandums

Dept. of Veterans Affairs Resource Requirements: Sloan D. Gibson, Acting Sec. of Veterans Affairs, S4540 [16JY]

Motions

Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act: reauthorize and improve (S. 162), S3019 [14MY], S3047 [15MY], S3151 [20MY], S3195 [21MY]

Veterans: improve provision of medical services and benefits (S. 1950), S557 [29JA], S611 [30JA], S665 [3FE], S707 [4FE]

——— improve provision of medical services and benefits (S. 1982), S936, S940 [12FE], S978 [24FE], S1011 [25FE], S1168 [26FE], S1197, S1209 [27FE]

Press releases

Commander—Keep Senate Bill Focused on Vets: American Legion, S1159 [26FE]

Corrine Brown Grateful for the Service of VA Secretary Shinseki: Representative Brown, H5059 [30MY]

Remarks in House

Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month: observance, H5649 [24JN], E791 [20MY]

Armed Forces: active duty suicide rates, H1528 [3FE]

——— provide discharged members diagnosed with mental health conditions with access to physicians with special mental health training, H4753 [21MY]

——— provide for behavioral health treatment for developmental disabilities under TRICARE, E876 [29MY], E1107 [3JY]

——— require mental health assessments before enlistment, H1528 [3FE]

——— require mental health assessments before enlistment or commissioning as an officer, H4752 [21MY], H4815 [22MY], H6818 [25JY], H7919 [12NO]

——— require mental health assessments before enlistment or commissioning as an officer (H.R. 4305), H2614 [25MR], H3065 [9AP], H3148 [10AP], H7401 [10SE]

Behavioral Health Response (nonprofit organization): anniversary, E1558 [13NO]

Buendia, Robert: Crisis Intervention Team Officer of the Year Award recipient, E1391 [11SE]

Camaraderie Foundation: tribute, E1345 [8SE]

Children and youth: tribute to the Creative Coalition and World Wide Entertainment, Inc., Be a STAR (Show Tolerance and Respect) Alliance anti-bullying inititative, E123 [28JA]

Committee on Foreign Affairs (House): Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations hearing on global impact of autism spectrum disorders, E1293 [31JY]

Dept. of Defense: Defense Health Program Alzheimer’s disease research funding, H5452 [18JN]

——— Defense Health Program post-traumatic stress disorder treatment funding, H5448–H5450 [18JN]

——— establish a grant program for nonprofit organizations to encourage use of assistance dogs by Armed Forces members and veterans, H5451, H5452 [18JN]

——— extend eligibility period for the Transitional Assistance Management Program, H25 [8JA], H2439 [14MR]

——— improve mental health treatment provided to Armed Forces members who served in classified missions, H5457, H5458 [18JN]

——— include additional community partnerships through a competitive and merit-based process to enhance mental health programs for National Guard and Reserve components, H5442 [18JN]

——— international sporting competition fund funding, H5442, H5443 [18JN]

——— mental health and suicide prevention program funding, H4753 [21MY]

——— post-traumatic stress disorder treatment funding, H4500 [20MY], H5409 [18JN]

——— Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Research Program funding to study blast injury and its correlation to traumatic brain injury, E811 [22MY]

——— study links between financial stress and suicide, H5465 [18JN], E1231 [24JY]

Dept. of HHS: authorize grants for training and support services for Alzheimer’s disease patients and their families (H.R. 2975), H4682 [20MY], H5871–H5873 [8JY], E791 [20MY]

——— reauthorize certain provisions relating to autism and establish a National Autism Spectrum Disorder Initiative (H.R. 4631), H5688–H5693 [24JN], E1062 [24JN], E1067, E1069 [25JN], E1079 [26JN], E1095 [30JN]

Dept. of Justice: appoint counsel for unaccompanied alien children and aliens with serious mental disabilities (H.R. 4936), H6663 [23JY]

——— authorize veterans’ treatment courts and encourage services for veterans through drug courts (H.R. 2187), H3064 [9AP]

——— mental health courts and veterans treatment courts funding, H4890, H4891 [28MY]

——— reauthorize the Missing Alzheimer’s Disease Patient Alert Program (H.R. 2976), H4682 [20MY], H5871–H5873 [8JY], E791 [20MY]

——— Second Chance Act grant funding, H4904, H4905 [28MY]

——— State and local mental health courts and adult and juvenile collaboration program grants funding, H4902, H4903 [28MY]

——— veterans treatment courts funding, H4901, H4902 [28MY], H4944 [29MY]

——— veterans treatment courts funding through reductions in ATF salaries and expenses account funding, H4941, H4942 [29MY]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: address needs of servicemembers who have received life-changing injuries to their reproductive systems and urinary tracts, H3329, H3330 [30AP]

——— extend and modify the pilot program on assisted living services for veterans with traumatic brain injury (H.R. 4276), H7585–H7587 [16SE], E1428 [17SE]

——— hiring of additional health care professionals funding, H6847–H6851 [25JY]

——— improve access of veterans to medical services by improving scheduling, staff training and hiring, access to care from non-departmental providers, and administrative matters, H5407–H5413, H5424–H5429 [18JN], H6334–H6338 [16JY], H6361, H6380–H6383 [17JY], H6735–H6737 [23JY], H6792–H6796 [24JY], H6818, H6847–H6851 [25JY], H6988, H6989 [29JY], H7056, H7078–H7085 [30JY], H7132 [31JY], E1316 [1AU]

——— improve mental health treatment provided to veterans who served in classified missions, H8901 [9DE]

——— improve mental health treatment provided to veterans who served in classified missions (H.R. 3387), H7664 [17SE]

——— improve research of Gulf War Illness and provide for the independent operation of the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War veterans Illnesses (H.R. 4261), H4863–H4866 [28MY]

——— provide veterans with counseling and treatment for sexual trauma that occurred during inactive duty training, H5427 [18JN]

——— provide veterans with counseling and treatment for sexual trauma that occurred during inactive duty training (H.R. 2527), H4861 [28MY], H6793 [24JY]

——— traumatic brain injury funding, H3349 [30AP]

Depts. of Defense and Veterans Affairs: electronic health records, military sexual assault prevention and response, posttraumatic stress disorder, and traumatic brain injury research funding, H5575 [20JN]

——— evaluate mental health care and suicide prevention programs, review discharge or separation of certain individuals, and require a loan repayment pilot program for psychiatrists (H.R. 5059), H7666 [17SE], H8873, H8899–H8904 [9DE], E1838 [12DE]

——— mental health care funding, E1531 [12NO]

——— mental health outreach and suicide prevention programs funding, H3305 [30AP], H7663–H7666 [17SE]

Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month: observance, H2618 [25MR], E452 [26MR]

Diseases: address rising rates of autism, H4482 [20MY]

——— Alzheimer’s disease research funding, H5870–H5873 [8JY], H7999 [17NO], H8074 [19NO], H8228, H8267–H8272 [2DE], H8288 [3DE], E1587 [14NO], E1698 [2DE], E1734 [4DE], E1814 [12DE]

——— develop international plans of action to address Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, H2893 [3AP], H9278 [11DE], E126 [28JA]

——— develop international plans of action to address Alzheimer’s disease and dementia (H. Res. 489), H4682 [20MY], H5873 [8JY]

——— develop plan of action to address Alzheimer’s disease, H4680–H4682 [20MY], H5869–H5873 [8JY], H8267–H8272 [2DE]

——— issue semipostal stamp to support Alzheimer’s disease research (H.R. 1508), H5871 [8JY], E791 [20MY]

Domestic policy: increase research, treatment, education, and outreach programs, H3126 [9AP]

Drugs: funding to combat heroin epidemic, H1649 [5FE]

Edgewater Systems for Balanced Living, Inc.: anniversary, E1511 [12NO]

Executive Office of the President: establish the Office of the National Alzheimer’s Project, E1734 [4DE]

Federal aid programs: make available needed psychiatric, psychological, and supportive services for individuals diagnosed with mental illness and families in mental health crisis, H2714 [27MR]

——— make available needed psychiatric, psychological, and supportive services for individuals diagnosed with mental illness and families in mental health crisis (H.R. 3717), H26 [8JA], H1601 [5FE], H5252, H5254 [11JN], H6749, H6778 [24JY], H6981 [29JY], H7302 [9SE]

Firearms: ensure prohibited purchasers are included in National Instant Criminal Background Check System, require background checks for commercial sales, and establish a National Commission on Mass Violence (H.R. 1565), H2919 [4AP]

FTC: study link between eating disorders and unrealistic body images depicted in advertising, H2152 [5MR]

Gambling: opposition to expansion of legalized gambling, E1502 [19SE]

Health: reauthorize certain programs related to traumatic brain injury and trauma research (H.R. 1098), H5699, H5700 [24JN], E1062 [24JN], E1095 [30JN]

——— reauthorize certain programs related to traumatic brain injury and trauma research (S. 2539), H7964 [13NO]

——— use of hypnosis to treat stress, E1802 [12DE]

Health care facilities: maximize access of individuals with mental illness to community-based services and strengthen the impact of such services (H.R. 4574), H3437 [6MY], H6778 [24JY]

House of Representatives: moment of silence in memory of victims of shootings at Isla Vista, CA, H4867 [28MY]

Insight Memory Care Center (organization): anniversary, E1437 [17SE]

——— condemn rampage and mass shooting, offer condolences to the community, the victims, and their families, and call for action to prevent such tragedies in the future (H. Res. 608), H5201–H5203 [10JN]

Medicare: increase diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias to improve care and outcomes (H.R. 1507), H4681 [20MY], H5649 [24JN], H5872, H5873 [8JY]

Mental Health Month: observance, H3437 [6MY]

Mexico: call for release of Andrew P. Tahmooressi, H5649 [24JN], E1085 [26JN]

National Autism Awareness Month: observance, H2808, H2812 [2AP], H3249 [29AP], E420 [24MR]

National Eating Disorders Awareness Week: observance, H2152 [5MR], E273 [28FE]

National Eating Disorders Week: observance, H2067 [28FE]

National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month: observance, H7663 [17SE]

National Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month: observance, H4483 [20MY], H4816 [22MY], H5562 [20JN]

NIH: expand, intensify, and coordinate programs and activities relative to Tourette syndrome (H.R. 4221), H4483 [20MY]

——— submit an annual budget estimate for Alzheimer’s disease initiatives (H.R. 4351), H4681, H4682 [20MY], H5872, H5873 [8JY], H8270 [2DE], E1720 [3DE], E1734 [4DE]

Parkland, FL: tribute to Rising Tide Car Wash (business), E420 [24MR]

Pelletier, Justine: return to parental custody after removal due to charge of medical child abuse, H5487 [18JN]

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (H. Res. 631), H5733, H5735 [25JN]

Schools: address and take action to prevent bullying and harassment of students (H.R. 1199), H5728 [25JN]

Servicemen’s Readjustment Act: anniversary, H5650 [24JN], E1053 [23JN], E1093 [30JN]

University of Texas at Dallas: tribute to Brain Performance Institute, H8075 [19NO]

Veterans: improve provision of medical services and benefits, H4927 [29MY], H5195 [10JN]

World Alzheimer’s Day: observance, E1479 [19SE]

World Autism Awareness Day: observance, H2787 [1AP], H2808, H2812 [2AP]

World Suicide Prevention Day: observance, H7401 [10SE]

Remarks in Senate

Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month: observance, S3470 [5JN]

Armed Forces: appropriate funds necessary to ensure that Reserve component members who perform inactive-duty training continue to receive pay during a Government shutdown (H.R. 3230), insert S. 2450 language in lieu, S3564 [11JN]

——— establish an online significant event tracker system for tracking, reporting, and summarizing exposures of members to traumatic events (S. 2368), S3417 [4JN], S4321 [9JY]

——— improve access to mental health services under TRICARE (S. 2276), S2586 [1MY]

Committee on the Judiciary (Senate): field hearing held in Rutland, VT, on community solutions to breaking heroin and opioid addiction, S1771 [26MR], S3361 [3JN]

Dept. of Defense: implement online computerized assessment to detect behaviors indicating suicide risk and other mental health conditions for Armed Forces members (S. 810), S5666 [17SE]

——— improve consistency of data collection, reporting, and assessment in connection with suicide prevention efforts (S. 2357), S3187 [20MY]

Dept. of Education: protect students from inappropriate seclusion and physical restraint in schools (S. 2036), S1003 [24FE]

Dept. of HHS: reauthorize certain provisions relating to autism and establish a National Autism Spectrum Disorder Initiative (H.R. 4631), S5312 [31JY]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: allow veterans of past wars with a less than honorable discharge to upgrade status if service-connected disability would be currently diagnosed as post-traumatic stress disorder, S1143 [26FE]

——— delay expansion of medical services to veterans with no service-connected disability or income above means-tested threshold until GAO certifies that resources can accommodate increased enrollment, S1024–S1032 [25FE], S1146, S1161–S1163 [26FE], S1205 [27FE]

——— eliminate backlog of benefit claims and delays in receipt of medical care, S3417 [4JN]

——— expand availability of medical care by allowing veterans to see health care providers participating in Medicare, S3578 [11JN]

——— extend and modify the pilot program on assisted living services for veterans with traumatic brain injury (H.R. 4276), S6841 [15DE]

——— extend and modify the pilot program on assisted living services for veterans with traumatic brain injury (S. 2607), S4504 [15JY], S5170, S5171 [31JY]

——— improve access of veterans to medical services by improving scheduling, staff training and hiring, access to care from non-departmental providers, and administrative matters, S3553–S3560, S3563, S3575, S3578, S3582, S3583, S3586–S3594, S3597 [11JN], S3622, S3623, S3645–S3647 [12JN], S3702 [17JN], S3805 [18JN], S4131–S4133 [26JN], S4248–S4251, S4258 [8JY], S4639 [21JY], S4737–S4740 [23JY], S4854–S4858 [24JY], S5012–S5020 [29JY], S5125 [30JY], S5170, S5171, S5175, S5178, S5188 [31JY]

——— improve provision of health care to veterans in rural and highly rural areas (S. 2009), S930 [12FE]

——— mental health care funding, S4539 [16JY]

——— offset increased medical services and benefits funding by capping Dept. of Defense overseas contingency operations account funding, S1204, S1206 [27FE]

——— require publication of certain quality of care data for health care facilities, S1161 [26FE]

——— evaluate mental health care and suicide prevention programs, review discharge or separation, and require a loan repayment pilot program for psychiatrists (H.R. 5059), unanimous-consent request, S6851–S6854 [15DE]

Firearms: address gun violence, improve record availability to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and address mental illness in the criminal justice system, S7 [6JA], S843 [10FE], S1808 [27MR], S2634 [5MY]

——— allow family members and close associates of suspected unstable individuals to take legal actions to prevent such individuals from purchasing or possessing firearms, S3333 [2JN]

——— strengthen mental health infrastructure and firearm prohibitions for at-risk individuals, S3329 [2JN]

Gilmanton Iron Works, NH: anniversary of New Hampshire Exceptional Citizens Week held at Camp Fatima, S5306 [31JY]

Health: reauthorize certain programs related to traumatic brain injury and trauma research (S. 2539), S4214 [7JY], S4755 [23JY], S5643 [16SE]

Health care facilities: expand access to community mental health centers and improve the quality of mental health care, S1852, S1853, S1855, S1856, S1862, S1865 [31MR], S3391 [4JN]

——— expand access to community mental health centers and improve the quality of mental health care (S. 264), S3623 [12JN]

Medicare: increase diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias to improve care and outcomes (S. 709), S518 [28JA]

Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act: reauthorize and improve (S. 162), motion to proceed, S3019 [14MY], S3047 [15MY], S3151 [20MY], S3195 [21MY]

National Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Month: designate (S. Res. 481), S3900 [23JN], S4144 [26JN]

National Rehabilitation Counselors Appreciation Day: designate (S. Res. 388), S1669 [13MR]

National School Counseling Week: designate (S. Res. 342), S658 [30JA]

National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month: observance, S5666 [17SE]

National Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month: observance, S3178 [20MY]

NIH: expand, intensify, and coordinate programs and activities relative to Tourette syndrome (S. 637), S3178 [20MY]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: impact of implementation on the diagnosis and treatment of autism, S2090 [2AP]

Rockefeller, Senator: legislative accomplishments, S6331–S6334 [4DE]

Veterans: benefits funding, S3264–S3266 [22MY]

——— improve provision of medical services, S3228 [21MY]

——— improve provision of medical services and benefits (S. 1950), S445–S447, S458 [16JA], S467 [27JA], S2064–S2066 [2AP], S2759, S2760 [7MY]

——— improve provision of medical services and benefits (S. 1950), motion to proceed, S557 [29JA], S611 [30JA], S665 [3FE], S707 [4FE]

——— improve provision of medical services and benefits (S. 1950), unanimous-consent request, S1506, S1507 [11MR], S1759 [26MR], S2065 [2AP], S2759 [7MY]

——— improve provision of medical services and benefits (S. 1982), S705 [3FE], S708 [4FE], S867, S882 [11FE], S1168 [26FE], S1187–S1191, S1193–S1201, S1204–S1207, S1209, S1210, S1218 [27FE], S1331 [6MR], S2310–S2312 [9AP], S3319 [2JN]

——— improve provision of medical services and benefits (S. 1982), motion to proceed, S936, S940 [12FE], S1011, S1020–S1032, S1035–S1039 [25FE], S1134, S1140–S1148, S1150–S1163, S1165–S1168 [26FE]

——— improve provision of medical services and benefits (S. 1982), unanimous-consent agreement, S1169 [26FE]

——— improve provision of medical services and benefits (S. 1982), unanimous-consent request, S3262, S3264 [22MY]

Veterans Count (organization): Military Officers Association of America New Hampshire chapter Granite State Warriors Award recipient, S437 [16JA]

Warriors and Quiet Waters Foundation: tribute, S4151 [26JN]

World Autism Awareness Day: observance, S2090 [2AP]

Reports filed

Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education, and Support (Autism CARES) Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 4631) (H. Rept. 113–490), H5639 [23JN]

——— Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Senate) (S. 2449), S4153 [26JN]

Dept. of HHS Traumatic Brain Injury and Trauma Research Programs Reauthorization: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Senate) (S. 2539), S4762 [23JY]

Traumatic Brain Injury and Trauma Research Programs Reauthorization: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 1098) (H. Rept. 113–456), H4683 [20MY]

Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act: Committee of Conference (H.R. 3230) (H. Rept. 113–564), H6975 [28JY]

Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury Care Improvement Act: Committee on Veterans’ Affairs (House) (H.R. 4276) (H. Rept. 113–598), H7527 [15SE]

Statements

Alzheimer’s Disease: Michael Ellenbogen, E1479 [19SE]

Invisible Family: Kristin Stowers, E419 [24MR]

Opposition to Legalized Gambling: Les Bernal and Tom Grey, Stop Predatory Gambling (organization), E1502 [19SE]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 111, corrections in enrollment of H.R. 3230, Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act, H7087 [30JY]

H. Res. 608, condemn Isla Vista, CA, rampage and mass shooting, offer condolences to the community, the victims, and their families, and call for action to prevent such tragedies in the future, H5201 [10JN]

H.R. 1098, traumatic brain injury and trauma research programs reauthorization, H5699 [24JN]

H.R. 2527, Dept. of Veterans Affairs provision of veterans with counseling and treatment for sexual trauma that occurred during inactive duty training, H4861 [28MY]

H.R. 3230, Veterans’ Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act, S3565–S3575 [11JN]

H.R. 4261, Gulf War Health Research Reform Act, H4863–H4865 [28MY]

H.R. 4276, Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury Care Improvement Act, H7585 [16SE]

H.R. 4631, Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education, and Support (Autism CARES) Act, H5688–H5690 [24JN]

H.R. 5059, Suicide Prevention for American Veterans (SAV) Act, H8899–H8901 [9DE]

S. 2036, Keeping All Students Safe Act, S1004–S1007 [24FE]

S. 2539, traumatic brain injury and trauma research programs reauthorization, S5643 [16SE], H7964 [13NO]

S. Res. 342, National School Counseling Week, S657 [30JA]

S. Res. 386, support goals and ideals of National Professional Social Work Month and World Social Work Day, S1663 [13MR]

S. Res. 388, National Rehabilitation Counselors Appreciation Day, S1663 [13MR]

S. Res. 481, National Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Month, S3899 [23JN]