IntroducedFiled Mar 24, 2026
Sponsor: Rep. Conaway, Herbert C. [D-NJ-3] (D)
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May 20, 2026
Summary
The bill orders the Department of Veterans Affairs to start a pilot program that provides tele‑mental‑health or mobile mental‑health services to veterans in prison, focusing on PTSD, traumatic brain injury and military sexual trauma. It also requires federal prisons to set up dedicated veteran housing units and makes veterans’ compensation automatically resume when they are released. Finally, it calls for a government survey and annual report on veteran incarceration.
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