West Virginia Senate Bill 359 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)
Status: Introduced on January 29 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-01-29 - To Education
Pending: Senate Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to expand the number of people who are trained in suicide prevention in order to maximize the possibility that at risk children and adults can be saved. School personnel from middle school through college will not only be trained, they will provide children and young adults with suicide prevention information, facilitate discussion about preventing suicide and make mental health resources available. Licensed medical professionals will be required to obtain education in suicide prevention as part of their licensing process.

Relating to suicide prevention awareness

Sen. John Unger [D]	Sen. William Laird [D]	Sen. Ronald Miller [D]	Sen. Corey Palumbo [D]
Sen. Robert Plymale [D]	Sen. Roman Prezioso [D]	Sen. Ron Stollings [D]	Sen. Mike Hall [R]
Sen. Herb Snyder [D]	Sen. Art Kirkendoll [D]	Sen. Jeffrey Kessler [D]

2015-02-25 - House - Passed House (Roll No. 187) (Y: 98 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-11 - Senate - Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 2) (Y: 34 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-01-29	Senate	To Education
2015-01-29	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2015-01-29	Senate	To Education then Finance
2015-01-29	Senate	Filed for introduction

HB2535 (Same As) 2015-04-15 - Chapter 225, Acts, Regular Session, 2015
HB2441 (Same As) 2015-02-10 - To House Judiciary

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	40	New Code	See Bill Text
18	5	19	Amended Code	Citation Text
18	5	19d	Amended Code	Citation Text
18B	1B	7	New Code	See Bill Text
27	6	1	New Code	See Bill Text
27	6	2	New Code	See Bill Text
30	1	7a	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=359&year=2015&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb359%20intr.htm&yr=2015&sesstype=RS&i=359
Roll Call	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2015/RS/votes/senate/02-11-0002.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2015/RS/votes/house/00187.pdf