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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9438 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9438

 To amend and reauthorize the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide 
    Prevention Grant Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 30, 2024

   Mrs. Miller-Meeks (for herself, Mr. Bergman, and Mrs. Kiggans of 
  Virginia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL

 
 To amend and reauthorize the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide 
    Prevention Grant Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``No Wrong Door for Veterans Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO AND REAUTHORIZATION OF THE STAFF SERGEANT PARKER 
              GORDON FOX SUICIDE PREVENTION GRANT PROGRAM OF THE 
              DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    (a) Reorganization.--Subsection (b) of section 201 of the Commander 
John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act of 2019 
(Public Law 116-171; 38 U.S.C. 1720F) is amended, in the second 
sentence, by striking ``Office of Mental Health and Suicide 
Prevention'' and inserting ``the Assistant Under Secretary for Health 
for Clinical Services''.
    (b) Use of Grant Money.--Such section is further amended, in 
subsection (c)(2)(A), by inserting ``(not more than 5 percent of which 
may be spent on food and non-alcoholic beverages)'' after ``fiscal 
year''.
    (c) Briefing for Local VAMCs.--Such section is further amended, in 
subsection (h), by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(5) Briefing for local vamcs.--Not less than once per 
        calendar quarter, the Secretary shall provide, to the 
        appropriate personnel of each medical center of the Department 
        located not more than 100 miles from the primary location of a 
        grantee, a briefing about the grant program under this section 
        in order to improve coordination between a grantee and such 
        personnel.''.
    (d) Duration.--Such section is further amended, in subsection (j), 
by striking ``the date that is three years after the date on which the 
first grant is awarded under this section'' and inserting ``September 
30, 2027''.
    (e) Emergent Suicide Care.--Such section is further amended, in 
subsection (n)--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``When''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(2) If the Secretary does not provide services under paragraph 
(1) to an eligible individual during the 72-hour period following a 
referral under subsection (m), such eligible individual shall be 
treated as eligible for emergent suicide care under section 1720J of 
title 38, United States Code.''.
    (f) Reauthorization.--Such section is further amended, in 
subsection (p), by striking ``2025'' and inserting ``2027''.
    (g) Technical Correction to Definitions.--Such section is further 
amended, in subsection (q)(5), by striking ``Medical services'' and 
inserting ``The term `emergency treatment' means medical services''.
    (h) Required Use of Certain Screening Protocol.--Such section is 
further amended, in subsection (q)(11)(A)(ii), by adding at the end the 
following new sentence: ``In the case of a grantee awarded a grant 
under this section on or after the date of the enactment of the No 
Wrong Door for Veterans Act, such screening shall be the Columbia 
Protocol (also known as the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-
SSRS)).''.
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