Provide Veterans Crisis Line employees critical mental health services during and outside scheduled work hours through VA and outside providers.

John Boozman · Arkansas · Republican

policy impact 0.60 specificity 0.86 extraction confidence 90%

Commitment kind: action. Promised action: Provide critical mental health services during and outside of scheduled work hours through VA and outside providers.. Promised outcome: Veterans Crisis Line employees would be able to access critical mental health services beyond scheduled work periods.. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired. This provision was listed as part of Boozman’s Veterans Crisis Line Support and Safety Act.

Occurrences

Provide critical mental health services during and outside of scheduled work hours through VA and outside providers;

The bill would provide VCL employees mental health services both during and outside scheduled work hours through VA and outside providers.

Boozman, Blumenthal Introduce Bill to Strengthen Veterans Crisis Line, Support Personnel - Press Releases - Senator John Boozman
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Evidence

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shall be available both during and outside scheduled duty hours, and such availability shall be considered compensable on-duty time;

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Boozman cosponsored S. 5591, introduced September 29, 2026 and referred to the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee. Section 2(a) would require free, confidential mental health services for Veterans Crisis Line personnel during and outside scheduled hours, furnished through VA providers or contracts with independent outside providers. This establishes concrete legislative effort, not delivery. Searches covering October 20–22 found no subsequent enactment or implementation evidence; the commitment remains unresolved.

unresolved same_term A for effort

GovInfo: S. 5591 introduced bill text, Section 2(a)(1)(B)–(D)
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Assessments

Public state: pending As of 2026-10-22 · verified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): unresolved. unknown

The verified passage contains proposed bill language, not proof that services were enacted or provided. It also does not establish Boozman's sponsorship or material contribution; those assertions appear only in the untrusted summary. No verified deadline has expired, so the promise remains unresolved.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-6.1-sol · confidence 97%