Veterans Suicide Prevention and Care Enhancement

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2026-05-04 — VA Mental Health Outreach and Engagement Act: 2025 — VA Mental Health Outreach and Engagement Act (introduced): would require annual mental-health consultations and proactive outreach to veterans receiving compensation for service-connected mental-health disabilities — an incremental expansion of proactive VA mental-health engagement obligations. (novelty: 2)
2025-05-12 — Saving Our Veterans Lives Act of 2025: cross-connection with saving-our-veterans-lives-act-2025: Bill establishes secure firearm storage distribution and education as a codified VA suicide-prevention strategy. (novelty: 3)
2026-05-13 — Veterans Suicide Prevention and Care Enhancement Act of 2026: 2026 — HR8793 (Veterans Suicide Prevention and Care Enhancement Act of 2026, introduced): referred to the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs in the 119th Congress; bill text and substantive provisions not yet available. (novelty: 2)