No Wrong Door for Veterans Act
Introduced Mar 10, 2025 by Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks
The House passed it. The Senate has to pass it before it can reach the President.
This bill reauthorizes through FY2028 and modifies the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which awards grants to eligible entities to provide or coordinate suicide prevention services for veterans and members of the Armed Forces and their families.
Among other elements, the bill
adjusts the maximum amount for grants awarded under the program and provides for additional funding per individual who receives suicide prevention services provided or coordinated by a grantee;
requires the VA to provide briefings about the grant program at least once a year to certain personnel at each VA medical center located within 100 miles from the primary location of a grantee;
Read the full summary on Congress.govSummary by the Congressional Research Service.
No recorded roll-call vote on this bill — it may have passed by voice vote or unanimous consent, which don't record individual votes.
- May 22, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- May 22, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- May 22, 2025On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
- May 22, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
- May 22, 2025Considered as unfinished business.
- May 20, 2025At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules. Mr. Bost objected to the vote on the grounds that a quorum was not present. Further proceedings on the motion were postponed. The point of no quorum was considered as withdrawn.
- May 20, 2025DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1969.
- May 20, 2025Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2175-2177; text: CR H2175-2176)
- May 20, 2025Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- May 19, 2025Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 76.
- May 19, 2025Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-103.
- May 6, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Mar 25, 2025Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by the Yeas and Nays: 7 - 5.
- Mar 25, 2025Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Mar 10, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Mar 10, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- Mar 10, 2025Introduced in House