S. 2300: Jacob Sexton Military Suicide Prevention Act of 2014
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S. 2300: Jacob Sexton Military Suicide Prevention Act of 2014
113th Congress · introduced 2014-05-07 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2014-05-07 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Donnelly, Joe [D-IN] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Jacob Sexton Military Suicide Prevention Act of 2014
Plain summary
Jacob Sexton Military Suicide Prevention Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD), at least once each year, to: (1) provide a person-to-person mental health assessment for each member of the Armed Forces on active duty and for each member of the Ready Reserve of an Armed Force for the purpose of identifying mental health conditions to determine which members are in need of additional care, treatment, or other services; and (2) submit to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees a report on such assessments, including on the number of members referred for care and services based on mental health conditions detected. Requires the Secretary to: (1) convene an interagency working group to review and recommend collaborative approaches to improving the provision of mental health services to members of the National Guard and the Reserves; (2) report the findings and recommendations of the working group to specified congressional committees; and (3) report to the Armed Services Committees on an evaluation of specific tools, processes, and best practices to improve the identification of, and treatment by the Armed Forces of, mental health conditions and traumatic brain injury among members of the Armed Forces.
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Jacob Sexton Military Suicide Prevention Act of 2014
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Sponsor: Sen. Donnelly, Joe [D-IN] · 1 cosponsors
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Roger F. Wicker (R-MS)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-113s2300.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/113/s>
Record fed-us-cong113-s2300 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113