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Deaths by suicide of veterans or military service members; inquiry by State Registrar of Vital Records; Department of Veterans Services annual report. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records, when a death certificate is filed and lists suicide as the cause of death, to make an inquiry into whether the decedent was a veteran or military service member and to provide any information concerning the suicide of such veteran or military service member to the Department of Veterans Services. The bill also provides that the Commissioner of the Department of Veterans Services may request, and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner shall deliver to the Commissioner, a copy of an autopsy report of a veteran or military service member whose cause and manner of death is determined to be a suicide. The bill also reestablishes the position of Suicide Prevention Coordinator as the Suicide Prevention Program and requires such Program to, in coordination with the State Police, compile and analyze data relating to such suicides to be included in the annual report submitted by the Department to the Governor and the General Assembly.
Introduced
Jan 4, 2025
Last Action
Feb 17, 2025
Session
VA 2025
Sponsors
1 primary · 13 co
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 3-N 1-A)
Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1738)
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
Passed House (99-Y 0-N)
Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)
Appropriations Amendments agreed to
Read second time
Public Safety Amendments agreed to
Engrossed by House as amended
Printed as engrossed 25103963D-E
Read first time
Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1738)
Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N)
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
Assigned Approps sub: Transportation & Public Safety
Reported from Public Safety with amendment(s) and referred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
Referred from General Laws and referred to Public Safety (Voice Vote)
Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25103963D
Referred to Committee on General Laws
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Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 3-N 1-A)
David A. Reid
Mike A. Cherry
Jackie H. Glass
Joshua E. Thomas
Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker
Rozia A. Henson, Jr.
Marcia S. "Cia" Price
Atoosa R. Reaser
Kathy K.L. Tran
Vivian E. Watts
Rodney T. Willett