HB1738
Veterans or military service members; deaths by suicide.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. 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 ... (More) 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. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/04/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25103963D
- 01/04/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/13/2025 - House: Placed on General Laws Agenda
- 01/14/2025 - House: Referred from General Laws and referred to Public Safety (Voice Vote)
- 01/14/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 01/21/2025 - House: Placed on Public Safety Agenda
- 01/24/2025 - House: Reported from Public Safety with amendment(s) and referred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/25/2025 - House: Assigned Approps sub: Transportation & Public Safety
- 01/29/2025 - House: Placed on Appropriations Agenda
- 01/29/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/2025 - House: Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1738)
- 01/31/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Read second time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Public Safety Amendments agreed to
- 02/03/2025 - House: Appropriations Amendments agreed to
- 02/03/2025 - House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/03/2025 - House: Printed as engrossed 25103963D-E
- 02/04/2025 - House: Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/2025 - House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 02/04/2025 - House: Passed House (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 02/12/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1738)
- 02/12/2025 - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 3-N 1-A)
