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SB95 • 2025
Provide funding for suicide prevention
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Provide funding for suicide prevention
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Plain English: Amendment - 1st Reading-white - Requested by: Mike Yakawich - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety - 2025 69th Legislature 2025 Drafter: Chanan Brown, SB0095.001.002 - 1 - Authorized Print Version – SB 95 1 SENATE BILL NO.
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Provide funding for suicide prevention
- 2025 69th Legislature 2025 SB 95 - 1 - Authorized Print Version – SB 95 ENROLLED BILL AN ACT ALLOCATING MONEY FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION EFFORTS FOR VETERANS AND SERVICE MEMBERS; ESTABLISHING PURPOSES FOR USE OF THE MONEY; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE AND A TERMINATION DATE. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA: Section 1. Allocation. (1) There is allocated $300,000 from the state special revenue account established in 17-6-603 to the department of public health and human services for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, for grants made pursuant to 53-21-1101 and 53-21-1111 for suicide prevention activities. (2) The allocation must be used to: (a) implement strategies that are developed, with assistance from the U.S. department of veterans affairs and the federal substance abuse and mental health services administration, as part of the Montana department of public health and human services' campaign to prevent suicide among service members, veterans, and their families; (b) identify and screen service members, veterans, and their families for suicide risk by: (i) establishing screening standards for the identification of suicide risk among service members, veterans, and their families; (ii) educating providers and peers involved in the intake process; and (iii) establishing a review process for identification of service members, veterans, and their families in mortality and data review; (c) promote connectedness and improve care transitions for service members, veterans, and their families by: (i) increasing peers who are trained in suicide prevention to work in connecting those individuals to services; and - 2025 69th Legislature 2025 SB 95 - 2 - Authorized Print Version – SB 95 ENROLLED BILL (ii) developing collaborative policies and protocols across military and civilian agencies to improve continuity of care; and (d) increase lethal means safety and safety planning by: (i) implementing a safe storage campaign statewide; (ii) conducting statewide lethal means safety training events; and (iii) convening a working group to support adoption of clinical practice guidelines for safety planning. (3) The department shall report on the results of the activities described in this section as part of its annual performance report required under 2-12-105. Section 2. Notification to tribal governments. The secretary of state shall send a copy of [this act] to each federally recognized tribal government in Montana. Section 3. Effective date. [This act] is effective July 1, 2025. Section 4. Termination. [This act] terminates June 30, 2027. - END - I hereby certify that the within bill, SB 95, originated in the Senate. ___________________________________________ Secretary of the Senate ___________________________________________ President of the Senate Signed this _______________________________day of____________________________________, 2025. ___________________________________________ Speaker of the House Signed this _______________________________day of____________________________________, 2025. SENATE BILL NO. 95 INTRODUCED BY M. YAKAWICH AN ACT ALLOCATING MONEY FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION EFFORTS FOR VETERANS AND SERVICE MEMBERS; ESTABLISHING PURPOSES FOR USE OF THE MONEY; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE AND A TERMINATION DATE.