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Mississippi committee advances bill to create 15-member task force on service-member suicide
Summary
A Mississippi legislative committee advanced House Bill 1268 to create a 15-member Military Save Our Service Members Task Force aimed at seeking remedies to reduce soldier suicide, combining military leaders, chaplains and mental-health professionals.
A Mississippi Senate committee advanced House Bill 1268 on a voice vote Friday to create the Military Save Our Service Members Task Force, a 15-member panel charged with identifying remedies to reduce service-member suicide in the state.
Representative (name not specified) told the committee the bill “is a very simple bill that seeks to accomplish something that’s very complicated,” and said the task force will include commissioned and noncommissioned officers, chaplains, faith-based leaders in the National Guard and mental-health and public-health experts. “With this task force, my goal is to go and seek out the remedies…
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