---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 2068"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "2068"
heading: "Mental health consultations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/2068"
units:
  - "Part II — General Benefits"
  - "Chapter 20 — Benefits for Homeless Veterans"
  - "Subchapter VII — Other Provisions"
---

# §2068. Mental health consultations

- (a) **In General.—** Not later than two weeks after the date on which a [veteran](/usc/38/1101.md?p=1) described in [subsection (b)](#b) enters into a program administered by the Homeless Programs Office of the [Department](/usc/38/101.md?p=1), the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) shall offer the [veteran](/usc/38/1101.md?p=1) a mental health consultation to assess the health needs of, and care options for, the [veteran](/usc/38/1101.md?p=1).
- (b) **Veteran Described.—** A [veteran](/usc/38/1101.md?p=1) described in this subsection is a [veteran](/usc/38/1101.md?p=1) to whom a mental health consultation is not offered or provided through the case management services of the program of the Homeless Programs Office into which the [veteran](/usc/38/1101.md?p=1) enters.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 117–328, div. V, title IV, § 404(b)(1), Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5513.)