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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

SB 679

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: law enforcement officer suicide prevention and reporting and making an appropriation. (FE)

Death Health services department of — Health Justice department of Organization miscellaneous Police

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

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires the Department of Justice, in cooperation with the

Department of Health Services and the Center for Suicide Awareness, to establish

a training curriculum designed to prevent suicide committed by law enforcement

officers. The training must include the causes, behaviors, warning signs, and risk

factors associated with law enforcement officer suicide, identify appropriate

intervention strategies to be used by law enforcement agencies to effectively prevent

law enforcement officer suicide, and provide information concerning programs that

offer crisis intervention and counseling services to law enforcement officers. The bill

requires that the training curriculum be made available to law enforcement agencies

to be used as part of ongoing officer training. The bill also provides that DOJ must

provide a $250,000 annual grant to the Center for Suicide Awareness to provide

training to law enforcement officers based on the curriculum that is established.

In addition, this bill requires DOJ to collect information about law enforcement

officer suicide and publish an annual report on officer suicide on the department's

Internet site.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Jacque (R) , Nass (R)

16 cosponsors

Andraca (D) , Armstrong (R) , Brandtjen (R) , Cabral-Guevara (R) , Dittrich (R) , Gundrum (R) , Horlacher (R) , James (R) , Murphy (R) , Mursau (R) , Rozar (R) , Sortwell (R) , Stafsholt (R) , Subeck (D) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Tusler (R)

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Labor and Regulatory Reform, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Feb 23, 2022 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Nov 11, 2021 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Jacque and Nass; cosponsored by Representatives Cabral-Guevara, Rozar, Andraca, Armstrong, Brandtjen, Dittrich, Gundrum, Horlacher, James, Mursau, Sortwell, Subeck, Thiesfeldt and Tusler

  2. Nov 11, 2021 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Labor and Regulatory Reform

  3. Nov 11, 2021 · Senate

    Representative Murphy added as a cosponsor

  4. Nov 30, 2021 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Feb 10, 2022 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Feb 17, 2022 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  7. Feb 17, 2022 · Senate

    Senator Stafsholt added as a coauthor

  8. Feb 23, 2022 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  9. Feb 23, 2022 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Labor and Regulatory Reform, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  10. Feb 23, 2022 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  11. Mar 15, 2022 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1