No Wrong Door for Veterans Act
Officially: “No Wrong Door for Veterans Act” Read the full text
What it does
Read it in plain language
1Short title
This section would state that the Act's official short title is the 'No Wrong Door for Veterans Act.'
Show official text
1. Short title This Act may be cited as the No Wrong Door for Veterans Act .
2Reauthorization and improvement of Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program of Department of Veterans Affairs
This section would amend the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program, established by section 201 of the Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act of 2019, in several ways. It would change the program's end date from three years after the date the first grant is awarded to a fixed date of September 30, 2026. It would require an entity that receives a grant under the program, and that provides or coordinates suicide prevention services for an eligible individual, to notify that individual that the individual may be eligible for emergent suicide care under 38 U.S.C. 1720J, and to notify the Secretary of Veterans Affairs if the individual elects to receive that emergent suicide care; it would also update a related provision (redesignated as paragraph (4)) so that it applies with respect to this new notification requirement as well as the two provisions it already covered. It would provide that if the Secretary does not provide services to an eligible individual within the 72-hour period following a referral for such services, that individual would be treated as eligible for emergent suicide care under 38 U.S.C. 1720J. It would authorize $52,500,000 for the program for fiscal year 2026, in addition to the $174,000,000 already authorized for fiscal years 2021 through 2025. It would require that, to be an eligible entity for a grant, an organization must have continuously provided mental health care or support services in the United States during the two-year period before it applies for a grant, and it would add health care providers to the list of organization types (which already includes foundations) that can qualify as an eligible entity. It would make a technical correction to the program's definitions clarifying the term 'emergency treatment.' And it would require that, for any grant made on or after the date this Act is enacted, the screening protocol used to assess an individual's risk must be the Columbia Protocol, also known as the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale.
Show official text
2. Reauthorization and improvement of Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program of Department of Veterans Affairs (a) Duration 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 subsection (j), by striking the date that is three years after the date on which the first grant is awarded under this section and inserting September 30, 2026 . (b) Emergent suicide care Such section is further amended— (1) in subsection (m)— (A) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4); (B) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new paragraph (3): (3) Emergent suicide care In the case of an eligible individual who receives suicide prevention services provided or coordinated by an eligible entity in receipt of a grant under this section, the eligible entity shall notify— (A) the eligible individual that the individual may be eligible for emergent suicide care under section 1720J of title 38, United States Code; and (B) the Secretary, if an eligible individual notified under subparagraph (A) elects to receive such emergent suicide care. ; and (C) in paragraph (4), as so redesignated, by striking (1) or (2) and inserting (1), (2), or (3) ; and (2) in subsection (n)— (A) by inserting (1) In general.— before When and adjusting the margins accordingly; and (B) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (2) Time frame If the Secretary does not provide services under paragraph (1) to an eligible individual during the 72-hour period following a referral under subsection (m), such eligible individual shall be treated as eligible for emergent suicide care under section 1720J of title 38, United States Code. . (c) Reauthorization Such section is further amended, in subsection (p)— (1) by striking section a total of $174,000,000 for fiscal years 2021 through 2025. and inserting section— ; and (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs: (1) a total of $174,000,000 for fiscal years 2021 through 2025; and (2) $52,500,000 for fiscal year 2026. . (d) Requirements for eligible entities Such section is further amended, in subsection (q)(3)— (1) by inserting an entity that has continuously provided 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 ; (2) in subparagraph (A), by striking or foundation and inserting , foundation, or health care provider ; and (3) in subparagraph (E), by striking A and inserting a . (e) 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 . (f) Required use of certain screening protocol Such section is further amended, in subsection (q)(11)(A)(ii), by inserting after risk the following: , which in the case of a grant made on or after the date of the enactment of the No Wrong Door for Veterans Act , shall be the Columbia Protocol (also known as the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale) .
3Inclusion of adaptive prostheses and terminal devices for sports and other recreational activities in medical services furnished to eligible veterans by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
This section would amend the definition of covered medical services in 38 U.S.C. 1701 to specify that adaptive prostheses and terminal devices used for sports and other recreational activities are included as artificial limbs covered under that law.
Show official text
3. Inclusion of adaptive prostheses and terminal devices for sports and other recreational activities in medical services furnished to eligible veterans by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs Section 1701 of title 38, United States Code, is amended, in paragraph (6)(F)(i), by inserting (including adaptive prostheses and terminal devices for sports and other recreational activities) after artificial limbs .
4Extension of certain limits on payments of pension
This section would extend, from November 30, 2031 to January 30, 2033, the date on which a certain limit on the payment of veterans' pension under 38 U.S.C. 5503(d)(7) is set to expire.
Show official text
4. Extension of certain limits on payments of pension Section 5503(d)(7) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by striking November 30, 2031 and inserting January 30, 2033 . Passed the House of Representatives May 22 (legislative day May 21), 2025. Kevin F. McCumber, Clerk.
Where it is
In the House.