U.S. SENATORS TINA SMITH, MARSHA BLACKBURN INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN BILL TO PREVENT VETERAN AND MILITARY SUICIDE BY VICTIMS OF MILITARY SEXUAL TRAUMA

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- Sen. Tina Smith issued the following press release:

U.S. Senators Tina Smith (D-MN) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced the Improving Personal Risk Assessments to Prevent Suicide Act, a bill to help better understand the relationship between servicemembers and veterans' experiences of military sexual trauma (MST) and suicide risk. The bill would require the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to publish a study on the links between MST, intimate partner violence and the risk of suicide.

The bill would also require the Departments to incorporate those findings into clinical assessments for identifying and treating patients at risk of suicide - the first time military sexual trau...