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Requires VA-offered annual suicide-prevention training for covered providers and a public Preferred Provider List of trained providers, with reporting to Congress.
The bill increases veterans' access to suicide‑prevention–trained clinicians and creates oversight data to target gaps, but does so with added VA/taxpayer costs, greater administrative burdens, and risks from public reporting and incomplete provider listings.
Veterans: More providers completing evidence-based suicide-prevention training improves early identification and intervention for veterans at risk of suicide.
Veterans and families: A publicly available preferred‑provider list makes it easier to find clinicians who have completed veteran-specific suicide‑prevention training.
Healthcare workers/providers: Access to VA-provided or VA-recognized training and visibility into training gaps increases provider skills and encourages more clinicians to complete suicide-prevention training.
Taxpayers: The VA will incur administrative costs to develop, deliver, and annually verify training, maintain the public list, and produce annual reports, increasing taxpayer expense.
VA staff: Additional data collection and reporting requirements increase workload for VA personnel and could divert resources from clinical care.
Healthcare workers and hospitals: Administrative burden to enroll, document training, and respond to listing/removal procedures increases paperwork and may strain provider time.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a list of covered providers that complete annual training on the prevention of suicide among veterans and to make such list available to veterans.
Introduced May 13, 2026 by Bill Huizenga · Last progress May 13, 2026
Requires the VA to offer annual, evidence-based suicide-prevention training for community providers who treat veterans and to publish a publicly available “Preferred Provider List” of providers who complete that training. The VA must implement training availability within 180 days and may accept substantially similar non‑VA training that meets competency standards; providers may opt out. The VA must also report to Congress within 180 days and annually on implementation, provider counts, training completions, usage patterns, and recommendations to improve veteran access to Preferred providers.