# 119-hr-136: Veteran Overmedication and Suicide Prevention Act of 2025

119-hr-136, Veteran Overmedication and Suicide Prevention Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16] (R-FL); status in_committee; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-04-21).

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- As of: 2026-04-21
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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-136
- Congress: 119
- Title: Veteran Overmedication and Suicide Prevention Act of 2025
- Status: in_committee
- Introduced: 2025-01-03
- Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16] (R-FL)
- Cosponsors: 5
- Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## Summary

**Independent NAS review of veteran suicides and prescription patterns** would require the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to analyze deaths among veterans who received VA care during a 5-year window. The study would catalog causes of death, demographics, toxicology (including black box and off-label drugs), diagnoses tied to prescriptions, concurrent medication use, use of first-line non-medication treatments, VA guideline and staffing practices, and coordination with states and local death-record systems.

## Cosponsors (5)

- Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11] (D-VA), 2025-01-03T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Van Drew, Jefferson [R-NJ-2] (R-NJ), 2025-02-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2] (D-CO), 2025-09-02T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-VA-7] (D-VA), 2025-10-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20] (D-NY), 2026-01-07T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Independent review of veteran deaths and prescribing: benefit, medium. This bill would require the VA to ask the National Academies within 90 days to review veteran deaths. It would cover veterans who got VA care in the five years before enactment. The Academies would have 180 days after an agreement to finish and send the report to VA. VA would send it to Congress an…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-1684: PAST Act of 2025
- 119-hr-2102: Major Richard Star Act
- 119-hr-1661: SAFE Act of 2025
- 119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act
- 119-hr-842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
- 119-hr-2192: Air America Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-136 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/136)

## Related
- [119-hr-1684: PAST Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1684)
- [119-hr-2102: Major Richard Star Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2102)
- [119-hr-1661: SAFE Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1661)
- [119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1262)
- [119-hr-842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage A…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-842)
- [119-hr-2192: Air America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2192)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-136 (as of 2026-04-21).