Windy Boy's suicide prevention bill to be vehicle for state efforts

Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, said in an emailed release Thursday that his suicide prevention bill, House Bill 118, would be the vehicle used for suicide bills this legislative session.

That bill, which appropriates $500,000 for its programs, would create a suicide prevention program in the Department of Public Health and Human Services headed by a suicide prevention officer to create and coordinate programs to prevent suicides in the state.

Windy Boy wrote that, as the vehicle for suicide bills, his bill will include a $1 million allocation, and he is working to amend his bill to...