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Senate passes SB27 to ensure veteran-trained staff on suicide hotline; sponsor frames measure as peer-support expansion
Summary
Senate Public Health committee approved SB27 to allow at least one suicide hotline employee to be a veteran or trained to serve veterans and the sponsor said additional funded positions will be pursued separately; the committee passed the bill by voice vote as noncontroversial.
Senator Trent Garner presented Senate Bill 27 to the Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee as the first of a two-pronged approach recommended by his veteran suicide task force. Garner said the bill would require that at least one hotline employee be a veteran or specifically trained to assist veterans and that…
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