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HR 136 · in committee · niche

Veteran Overmedication and Suicide Prevention Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • The VA must contract with the National Academies to report on veteran suicides over the past five years.
  • This affects veterans who received VA hospital care or medical services in the five years before their death.
  • The report will include total numbers and demographic data on veteran suicides, violent deaths, and accidental deaths.

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  1. 01

    How might understanding demographic patterns in veteran suicides over five years help the VA design more targeted prevention programs?

  2. 02

    What specific data about veteran deaths should the National Academies report include to make this study most useful for policy decisions?

  3. 03

    Who should have access to this suicide and death data, and how can the VA balance transparency with protecting individual veteran privacy?

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Sponsor · R-FL-16

Vern Buchanan

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Introduced 2025-02-03

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-02-03 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

  2. 2025-01-03 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

  3. 2025-01-03 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  4. 2025-01-03 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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