Improving Personal Risk Assessments to Prevent Suicide Act

This bill would require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, working with the Secretary of Defense, to study how military sexual trauma and intimate partner violence affect the risk of suicidal thoughts and suicide among service members and veterans. Within 18 months of the law taking effect, the report must be sent to the Armed Services and Veterans' Affairs committees in both the Senate and House, posted on a public website, and explained in a briefing to those committees. Within one year after the report is published, the two departments must add these findings as suicide risk factors to their joint clinical guidelines for assessing and managing patients at risk for suicide.

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Sponsors

• Tina Smith Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors