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Committee advances "Brian's Law" to the House floor after emotional testimony
Summary
The House Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness Committee voted 26-0 to move HB237 ("Brian's Law") to the full House after sponsor Representative Serrato described a trooper's suicide and urged that first-responder suicides be treated as line-of-duty deaths for benefits and memorialization.
The House Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness Committee voted to advance House Bill 237, known as "Brian's Law," to the full House after an emotional presentation by the bill's sponsor.
Representative Serrato told the committee HB237 would recognize some first-responder suicides as line-of-duty deaths, giving surviving families the same death-benefit treatment and…
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