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Amendment Changing How the Suicide Assistance Fund Gets Money
This amendment changes House Bill No. 174 so that money for suicide prevention comes from annual budget approvals instead of a fee on phone bills.
What This Bill Does
- Removes rules about adding fees to telephone bills to pay for the Suicide Assistance Fund.
- Requires the fund to receive money through annual appropriations acts.
- Deletes the rule that required three-fifths of lawmakers to vote yes on this bill because the phone fee is removed.
- Allows any leftover money in the fund at the end of June 30 each year to stay in the account instead of going back to general state funds.
- Fixes small numbering errors and typos found in the original text.
Who It Names or Affects
- The Suicide Assistance Fund
- State lawmakers who vote on House Bill No. 174
Terms To Know
- Appropriations Act
- A law that decides how much money the government gives to different programs each year.
- General Fund
- The main account where most state tax money is kept before it gets spent on specific things.
Limits and Unknowns
- This text does not say how much total money will be given to the fund.
- It does not explain when the new funding rules start working if a date was not set in the final bill.