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Lawmakers propose time-limited grants for predictive suicide models with guardrails

House Committee on Veterans Affairs · January 14, 2026
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Rep. McKenzieintroduced the Data Driven Suicide Prevention and Outreach Act to fund time-limited competitive grants for predictive models that integrate benefits, service and clinical data. Sponsors stressed explainability and clinical actionability; VA and APA urged privacy, explainability, interoperability and careful clinical deployment.

Representative McKenzie described the Data Driven Suicide Prevention and Outreach Act to establish a time-limited competitive grant program supporting the development of predictive models to identify suicide risk earlier by integrating benefits data, service records and clinical information.

McKenzie emphasized that grants would…

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