I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1969 
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 
MARCH 10, 2025 
Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS 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 Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives 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’’. 
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SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO AND REAUTHORIZATION OF THE 
STAFF SERGEANT PARKER GORDON FOX SUI-
CIDE 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 note) 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) GRANT MONEY: AMOUNT; USE.—Such section is 
further amended, in subsection (c)(2)(A), by striking 
‘‘$750,000 per grantee per fiscal year’’ and inserting 
‘‘$500,000 per fiscal year (not more than 5 percent of 
which may be spent on food and non-alcoholic beverages), 
plus $10,000 per eligible individual who receives suicide 
prevention services provided or coordinated by such grant-
ee’’. 
(c) PREFERENCE IN DISTRIBUTION OF GRANTS.— 
Such section is further amended, in subsection (d)(2), by 
adding at the end the following: ‘‘The Secretary shall not 
give preference to an eligible entity solely because the eligi-
ble entity previously received, or applied for, a grant under 
this section’’. 
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(d) REAPPLICATION BY A PREVIOUS GRANTEE.— 
Such section is further amended, in subsection (f), by add-
ing at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(3) REAPPLICATION
BY
PREVIOUS
GRANT-
EE.—An application submitted by an eligible entity 
that previously received grant funds under this sec-
tion shall include in such application evidence that 
the eligible entity used such grant funds to serve a 
significant number of veterans.’’. 
(e) 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. The Secretary may permit a 
representative of a grantee to attend such a brief-
ing.’’. 
(f) DURATION.—Such section is further amended, in 
subsection (j), by striking ‘‘the date that is three years 
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after the date on which the first grant is awarded under 
this section’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2028’’. 
(g) EMERGENT SUICIDE CARE.—Such section is fur-
ther amended, in subsection (n)— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ before ‘‘When’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(2) A grantee shall notify— 
‘‘(A) an eligible individual receiving suicide pre-
vention services provided or coordinated by such 
grantee that such eligible individual may receive 
emergent suicide care under section 1720J of title 
38, United States Code; and 
‘‘(B) the Secretary if such eligible individual re-
quests such emergent suicide care.’’. 
(h) REAUTHORIZATION.—Such section is further 
amended, in subsection (p)— 
(1) by striking ‘‘a total of $174,000,000 for fis-
cal years 2021 through 2025’’ and inserting an em 
dash; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraphs: 
‘‘(1) for fiscal years 2021 through 2025, a total 
of $174,000,000; and 
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‘‘(2) for fiscal years 2026 through 2028, a total 
of $157,500,000.’’. 
(i) CLARIFICATION OF ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—Such 
section is further amended, in subsection (q)(3)— 
(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), 
by inserting ‘‘an entity that has continuously pro-
vided mental health care or support services in the 
United States during the two-year period before the 
date on which the entity applies for a grant under 
this section, and that is’’ after ‘‘means’’; and 
(2) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘, or a 
health care provider’’ after ‘‘foundation’’. 
(j) 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’’. 
(k) REQUIRED USE OF SCREENING PROTOCOL SE-
LECTED BY THE SECRETARY.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Such section is further 
amended, in subsection (q)(11)(A)(ii), by striking 
‘‘screening for risk’’ and inserting ‘‘screening for 
risk, using a protocol selected by the Secretary’’. 
(2) RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.—In addition to 
the protocol selected pursuant to the amendment 
made by paragraph (1)— 
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(A) the Secretary may furnish another pro-
tocol to a grantee; and 
(B) a grantee may use another protocol to 
screen for risk. 
Æ 
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