Under current law, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides bereavement counseling to family members of an active-duty service member whose death is determined to be in the line of service. H.R. 5029 would require VA to provide bereavement counseling to family members of veterans or service members of the military who dies by suicide. Suicides by service members are generally considered as death in the line of duty; therefore, most of those survivors would be eligible under current law.
