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Wyoming panel advances bill to fund University loan program for veterans’ mental health providers
Summary
The Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Committee advanced Senate File 30, creating a University of Wyoming-administered loan program to train mental health providers who spend at least 25% of their time treating veterans. The bill was amended to change its funding mechanism and passed the committee on a 5-0 roll call.
The Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Committee on Oct. 12 advanced Senate File 30, which would create a University of Wyoming-administered loan program to increase the number of mental health providers serving veterans. Major General Greg Porter, the state Adjutant General, introduced the measure and said it aims to “get some additional mental health providers across the state to specifically get after veterans mental health.”
The bill, as described by Lieutenant Colonel Karen Hinkle, senior legal counsel for the Wyoming National Guard, would create Wyoming Statute 21-16-2001 and allow the University of Wyoming to award loans to U.S. citizens or permanent residents who are veterans and enrolled in a University of Wyoming master’s program in social work or counseling or a doctoral psychology program. Hinkle said the loans would cover “cost of attendance” as determined by the university and that other federal grants or funding sources would be credited against the…
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