Public Law 114-188 | Public Law 114–188: 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.

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PUBLIC LAW 114–188—JUNE 30, 2016

130 STAT. 611

Public Law

114–188

114th Congress

An Act

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.

June 30, 2016

[S. 2487]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

Female Veteran Suicide Prevention Act.

38 USC 101 note.

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)

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 130 STAT. 612 for women veterans and such programs with the highest satisfaction rates among women veterans.”

Approved June 30, 2016.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S. 2487 (H.R. 2915):

HOUSE REPORTS: ┐No. 114–365 (Comm. on Veterans’ Affairs) accompanying
H.R. 2915.

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 162 (2016):

June 7, considered and passed Senate.

June 21, considered and passed House.

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Public Law 114–188: 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.

SHORT TITLE.

SPECIFIC CONSIDERATION OF WOMEN VETERANS IN EVALUATION OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS MENTAL HEALTH CARE AND SUICIDE PREVENTION PROGRAMS.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S. 2487 (H.R. 2915):

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 162 (2016):

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