SECTION 1. Short Title.
This Act may be cited as the “Female Veteran Suicide Prevention Act”.
Female Veteran Suicide Prevention Act
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.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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—
in subparagraph (A), by inserting before the semicolon the following: “ , including metrics applicable specifically to women”;
in subparagraph (D), by striking “ and” at the end;
in subparagraph (E), by striking the period at the end and inserting “ ; and”; and
by 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 for women veterans and such programs with the highest satisfaction rates among women veterans.”