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The bill centralizes and regularly analyzes on‑campus suicide data to improve prevention and transparency for veterans, but it raises privacy risks, administrative costs, and may yield limited gains if recommendations are not implemented.
Veterans who use VA campuses will receive better-targeted suicide-prevention interventions because VA will consolidate on‑campus suicide data into a management system and provide coordinated analyses and quarterly (at least every 90 days) feedback to facilities.
Families of veterans will have their perspectives incorporated into reviews through the Behavioral Health Autopsy Program, improving completeness of cause analyses and informing prevention steps.
Taxpayers and veterans will benefit from increased transparency and accountability because Congress will receive an initial briefing within one year and annual updates on on‑campus suicides and the working group’s findings.
Veterans and their families face increased privacy risks because the bill requires collecting and consolidating sensitive behavioral‑health data and family interview information.
Taxpayers, veterans, and VA staff may bear higher administrative costs and workload because creating/operating the working group, new data systems, and mandated reporting will increase VA administrative expenses and documentation burdens on medical centers and field offices.
Veterans may see little practical benefit if the working group’s recommendations are not implemented, meaning required reviews and reporting could consume resources without producing concrete prevention improvements.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires the VA to annually evaluate trends in suicides/attempts on VA property, create a working group to collect/analyze on‑campus suicide data, and report findings to Congress.
Introduced November 10, 2025 by Jason Crow · Last progress November 10, 2025
Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to annually evaluate statistical trends and issue prevention recommendations for suicides and attempted suicides that occur on VA property, and to form a dedicated working group to collect, analyze, and consolidate data on those on‑campus suicides and attempts. The working group must be established within 90 days of enactment, operate for 2–5 years as determined by the Secretary, coordinate with VA medical centers and field offices at least every 90 days, review root cause analyses and Behavioral Health Autopsy Program data (including family interviews), and consolidate disparate data into a unified management system. The Secretary must brief House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committees within one year and annually while the group operates, and must submit a final evaluation report within 30 days after the group ends. The amendment also adds a statutory definition for “on‑campus suicide.” No specific appropriation language is included in the text provided.