# 119-hr-1969: No Wrong Door for Veterans Act

119-hr-1969, No Wrong Door for Veterans Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Miller-Meeks, Mariannette [R-IA-1] (R-IA); status passed_house; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-07-15).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-1969
- Congress: 119
- Title: No Wrong Door for Veterans Act
- Status: passed_house
- Introduced: 2025-03-10
- Sponsor: Rep. Miller-Meeks, Mariannette [R-IA-1] (R-IA)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-07-15

## Summary

**Strengthens and extends a VA suicide-prevention grant program to get at-risk veterans faster, clearer care.** It reauthorizes the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program, creates an emergent suicide-care referral process with a 72-hour backstop, requires the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale for new grants, adds adaptive sports prostheses to VA medical services, and moves a pension payment limit date to January 30, 2033. - Veterans and families: Veterans referred by grant partners can be notified about emergent suicide care and will be treated as eligible for that care if VA does not provide services within 72 hours. - Grant applicants and community providers: Eligible entities must have provided continuous mental-health or support services in the U.S. for the prior 2 years and may include foundations and health care providers; new grants must use the Columbia screening protocol. - VA benefit recipients: Adaptive prostheses and terminal devices for sports and recreation are added to VA medical services. A statutory pension payment limit date is extended to January 30, 2033. *Authorizes $174 million for fiscal years 2021–2025 and an additional $52.5 million for fiscal year 2026, and does not provide other new broad funding.*

## Cosponsors (1)

- Rep. Bergman, Jack [R-MI-1] (R-MI), 2025-03-24T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Stronger VA suicide-prevention grants through 2026: benefit, medium. This bill would extend and tighten the VA suicide-prevention grant program through September 30, 2026. It would authorize $174 million total for FY2021–FY2025 and $52.5 million for FY2026. Applicants would need two years of providing mental health or support services in the U.S., and health care pr…
- VA coverage for adaptive sports prostheses: benefit, low. This bill would add adaptive prostheses and terminal devices for sports and recreation to VA medical services. Eligible veterans would be able to have VA furnish these devices as part of their care. It would not set prices or a new payment formula.
- VA pension payment limit extended to 2033: cost, low. This bill would move a date in a VA pension payment limit from November 30, 2031 to January 30, 2033. This would keep the current limit in place longer. It would not change dollar amounts or who qualifies.

## Related bills

- 119-hr-9237: Take Care of America’s Veterans Act
- 119-hr-4669: FEMA Act of 2025
- 119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025
- 119-hr-2725: Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025
- 119-hr-1656: PLUS for Veterans Act of 2025
- 119-hr-3132: CHOICE for Veterans Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-1969 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1969)

## Related
- [119-hr-9237: Take Care of America’s Veterans Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9237)
- [119-hr-4669: FEMA Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4669)
- [119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3151)
- [119-hr-2725: Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2725)
- [119-hr-1656: PLUS for Veterans Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1656)
- [119-hr-3132: CHOICE for Veterans Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3132)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1969 (as of 2026-07-15).