MIND Our Veterans Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
Tightens mental-health screening requirements in military separation health assessments by requiring validated tools, evaluating substance-use screening, and reporting to Congress.
Who Benefits and How
Separating service members could receive more reliable mental-health and substance-use screening before transition out of military service.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Joint Executive Committee and Defense Department would have to update screening tools, assess substance-use screening, report to Congress, and fully implement the separation health assessment.
Key Provisions
- Requires validated PTSD, alcohol-use, and violence-risk screening tools in the separation health assessment.
- Requires assessment of whether substance-use screening should be included.
- Requires a congressional report and full Defense Department implementation within 120 days.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Tightens mental-health screening requirements in military separation health assessments by requiring validated tools, evaluating substance-use screening, and reporting to Congress.
Key Policy Areas
Defense, Veterans Affairs, Healthcare
Primary Purpose
Tightens mental-health screening requirements in military separation health assessments by requiring validated tools, evaluating substance-use screening, and reporting to Congress.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Service members undergoing separation health assessments
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Defense and VA administrators responsible for the assessment
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeCommittee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held.
Mr. Ricketts (for himself and Ms. Slotkin) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Service members undergoing separation health assessments
Defense and VA administrators responsible for the separation health assessment
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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