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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

SB 818

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Relating to: grants for a text message-based hotline for veterans in crisis and making an appropriation. (FE)

Organization, miscellaneous Telephone Tenure Veteran Veterans affairs, department of Veterinary medicine

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to award grants totalling

up to $200,000 per fiscal year from the general fund to one or more persons to

establish and administer a statewide text message-based hotline for veterans in

crisis. The grant program sunsets effective July 1, 2022.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Carpenter (D) , Erpenbach (D) , Hansen (D)

12 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Berceau (D) , Crowley (D) , Genrich (D) , Hebl (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Kolste (D) , Sargent (D) , Shankland (D) , Sinicki (D) , Zamarripa (D) , Zepnick (D)

Full history

  1. Feb 21, 2018 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Erpenbach, Carpenter and Hansen; cosponsored by Representatives Hesselbein, Sargent, Sinicki, Shankland, Hebl, Zamarripa, Zepnick, Kolste, Berceau, Anderson and Crowley

  2. Feb 21, 2018 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Veterans Affairs

  3. Feb 23, 2018 · Senate

    Representative Genrich added as a cosponsor

  4. Mar 1, 2018 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Mar 28, 2018 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1