Sandy Hook-Drafted Suicide Prevention Bill Gains Support: Report

Newtown CT

10 May, 2021

5:32 PM

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NEWTOWN, CT — A youth suicide prevention bill that Sandy Hook Promise helped to draft is gaining support in the U.S. Senate, reported the News-Times. A U.S. House version of the bill was passed last fall but did not go any farther at that time. Referred to as STANDUP, or the Suicide Training and Awareness Nationally Delivered for Universal Prevention Act, it calls on states to expand suicide prevention education at the middle school level and up. The new Senate version was sponsored by New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, and Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, a Republican. Read the News-Times story.