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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. 

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 

A BILL 

To amend and reauthorize the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon 

Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No Wrong Door for 

5 Veterans Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO AND REAUTHORIZATION OF THE 

2 STAFF SERGEANT PARKER GORDON FOX SUI3 CIDE PREVENTION GRANT PROGRAM OF THE 

4 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. 

5 (a) REORGANIZATION.—Subsection (b) of section 201 

6 of the Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental 

7 Health Care Improvement Act of 2019 (Public Law 116– 

8 171; 38 U.S.C. 1720F) is amended, in the second sen9 tence, by striking ‘‘Office of Mental Health and Suicide 

10 Prevention’’ and inserting ‘‘the Assistant Under Secretary 

11 for Health for Clinical Services’’. 

12 (b) USE OF GRANT MONEY.—Such section is further 

13 amended, in subsection (c)(2)(A), by inserting ‘‘(not more 

14 than 5 percent of which may be spent on food and non15 alcoholic beverages)’’ after ‘‘fiscal year’’. 

16 (c) BRIEFING FOR LOCAL VAMCS.—Such section is 

17 further amended, in subsection (h), by adding at the end 

18 the following new paragraph: 

19 ‘‘(5) BRIEFING FOR LOCAL VAMCS.—Not less 

20 than once per calendar quarter, the Secretary shall 

21 provide, to the appropriate personnel of each medical 

22 center of the Department located not more than 100 

23 miles from the primary location of a grantee, a 

24 briefing about the grant program under this section 

25 in order to improve coordination between a grantee 

26 and such personnel.’’. 


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1 (d) DURATION.—Such section is further amended, in 

2 subsection (j), by striking ‘‘the date that is three years 

3 after the date on which the first grant is awarded under 

4 this section’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2027’’. 

5 (e) EMERGENT SUICIDE CARE.—Such section is fur6 ther amended, in subsection (n)— 

7 (1) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ before ‘‘When’’; and 

8 (2) by adding at the end the following new 

9 paragraph: 

10 ‘‘(2) If the Secretary does not provide services under 

11 paragraph (1) to an eligible individual during the 72-hour 

12 period following a referral under subsection (m), such eli13 gible individual shall be treated as eligible for emergent 

14 suicide care under section 1720J of title 38, United States 

15 Code.’’. 

16 (f) REAUTHORIZATION.—Such section is further 

17 amended, in subsection (p), by striking ‘‘2025’’ and insert18 ing ‘‘2027’’. 

19 (g) TECHNICAL CORRECTION TO DEFINITIONS.— 

20 Such section is further amended, in subsection (q)(5), by 

21 striking ‘‘Medical services’’ and inserting ‘‘The term 

22 ‘emergency treatment’ means medical services’’. 

23 (h) REQUIRED USE OF CERTAIN SCREENING PRO24 TOCOL.—Such section is further amended, in subsection 

25 (q)(11)(A)(ii), by adding at the end the following new senVerDate Sep 11 2014 02:28 Sep 11, 2024 Jkt 049200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H9438.IH H9438

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1 tence: ‘‘In the case of a grantee awarded a grant under 

2 this section on or after the date of the enactment of the 

3 No Wrong Door for Veterans Act, such screening shall 

4 be the Columbia Protocol (also known as the Columbia5 Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C–SSRS)).’’. 

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