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HR 2878 · introduced · significant

Daniel J. Harvey, Jr. and Adam Lambert Improving Servicemember Transition to Reduce Veteran Suicide Act

What this bill does

  • The bill requires the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs to provide enhanced mental health information to transitioning service members and newly separated veterans.
  • Service members leaving the military and veterans in their first year after separation are affected by these expanded counseling and outreach requirements.
  • The bill expands existing programs (Transition Assistance Program and Solid Start) with no specified new funding mechanism or implementation deadline.

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  1. 01

    How should the military and VA coordinate to ensure transitioning service members actually receive and use mental health information rather than simply being provided it?

  2. 02

    What evidence exists that enhanced mental health information during transition specifically reduces veteran suicide compared to other intervention approaches?

  3. 03

    Without new funding specified in the bill, how would the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs expand these programs while maintaining quality in existing services?

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Zachary Nunn

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Introduced 2026-01-21

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2026-01-21 · house · Committee

    Subcommittee Hearings Held

  2. 2026-01-21 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.

  3. 2025-04-10 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  4. 2025-04-10 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  5. 2025-04-10 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  6. 2025-04-10 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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