H.R. 136
Veteran Overmedication and Suicide Prevention Act of 2025
In Plain Language
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to hire the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to study and report on veteran suicides over the past five years. The report will count all veterans who received VA care and died by suicide, violent death, or accident, and include information about who these veterans were by demographics. This covers any veteran who used VA hospital care or medical services in the five years before their death.
Official Congressional Research Service summary
Veteran Overmedication and Suicide Prevention Act of 2025This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to contract with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to report on the deaths of covered veterans who died by suicide during the last five years, regardless of whether information relating to such deaths has been reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A covered veteran is any veteran who received VA hospital care or medical services during the five-year period preceding the veteran's death.Among other elements, the report shall include the total number of covered veterans who died by suicide, violent death, or accidental death, as well as certain demographic information.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 3, 2025
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