Senate Passes National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act
The Senate passed the National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act (HR-2345) Wednesday under unanimous consent. The bill, which passed the House in July (see 1807240004), would direct the FCC to work to designate a new national three-digit dialing code in the…
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style of 911 for a mental health crisis and suicide prevention hotline. The Senate previously passed companion bill S-1015. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the lead sponsor of S-1015, lauded passage of HR-2345 as a way to “turn the tide in the campaign against this epidemic.”