VA would be required to study how chaplain services affect veteran suicide risk and make annual reports official.
This bill would make it a permanent rule for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to produce a yearly report on suicide prevention and share it with Congress. It would also require the VA to conduct a new two-year study. This study would look at how veterans' involvement with chaplain services and faith-based programs might impact their risk of suicide, aiming to improve suicide prevention efforts.
Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs likely creates an annual suicide prevention report, but it's not a formal legal requirement to do so or to brief Congress on it. There is also no specific study required by law on how chaplain services affect veteran suicide risk. If this bill passes, the annual report and briefing would become official requirements, and the VA would be mandated to conduct a new two-year study on the link between chaplain services and veteran suicide risk, with regular reports sent to Congress.
HR 9376 · 119th Congress · June 18, 2026 · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 8/10
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