PRINTER'S NO. 1146
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
985
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY SCHWEYER, READSHAW, KINSEY, YOUNGBLOOD, FREEMAN,
DAVIS, HAGGERTY, DRISCOLL, DEAN, GODSHALL, WATSON, O'BRIEN,
BARRAR, CALTAGIRONE, MULLERY, MURT, V. BROWN, SCHLOSSBERG,
SAINATO, McNEILL, D. COSTA, WARD AND DeLUCA, MARCH 28, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY
PREPAREDNESS, MARCH 28, 2017
AN ACT
Establishing the Veteran Suicide Prevention Grant Program;
conferring powers and imposing duties on the Department of
Military and Veterans Affairs; and establishing the Veteran
Suicide Prevention Fund.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Short title.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Veteran
Suicide Prevention Grant Program Act.
Section 2. Declaration of policy.
The General Assembly finds and declares that it is critical
to ensure that all United States military veterans in this
Commonwealth and their loved ones have the necessary resources
and support when dealing with the invisible wounds of war and
that struggling veterans are able to receive needed assistance
before reaching a point of despair and taking the irrevocable
step of taking their own lives.
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