Improving Personal Risk Assessments to Prevent Suicide Act
Sponsored By: Senator Smith, Tina [D-MN]
Introduced
Summary
Assess and integrate military sexual trauma and intimate partner violence as suicide risk factors. This bill would require the VA and DoD to analyze those links, publish a public report and briefing to Congress, and update clinical suicide-risk guidelines.
Show full summary
- Service members and veterans: Clinical guidance used to assess and manage suicide risk for active-duty members and veterans would explicitly include military sexual trauma and intimate partner violence.
- VA and DoD clinicians and administrators: The departments would have to submit a joint report within 18 months and then incorporate the report's findings into the VA/DoD suicide-risk clinical practice guidelines within one year of publication.
- Congress and the public: Four congressional committees would receive a briefing and the report would be posted on a publicly accessible website for public review.
*Would not authorize new federal spending or create new benefits.*
Personalized for You
How does this bill affect your finances?
Personalize government policy and PRIA will tell you what this bill means for your household, plus every other piece of legislation we track. PRIA reads each provision against your financial profile to show you exactly what matters to your wallet.
Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Suicide risk rules for service members, veterans
This bill would require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, with the Secretary of Defense, to publish a report. The report would be due within 18 months. The report would analyze how military sexual trauma (MST) and intimate partner violence (IPV) affect suicidal thoughts and suicide among service members and veterans. VA and DoD would brief four congressional committees (Armed Services and Veterans' Affairs in both chambers) and post the report on a public website. Within one year after the report is published, VA and DoD would add the findings, including MST and IPV as suicide risk factors, to the VA/DoD clinical practice guidelines (or similar successor guidelines). The bill would not authorize new spending or create new benefits.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Smith, Tina [D-MN]
MN • D
Cosponsors
Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
TN • R
Sponsored 6/23/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
View on Congress.gov