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SB 79 Fire or rescue volunteers; mental health treatment, funding by locality.
Introduced by: Jennifer T. Wexton | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Fire or rescue volunteers; mental health treatment; funding by locality. Allows any locality to fund the cost of participation in mental health treatment and counseling programs by a member of a volunteer fire or rescue company. A mental health program in which such volunteers are eligible to participate must be comparable to an employee assistance program offered to paid employees of the locality. This bill incorporates SB 134 and is identical to HB 233.
FULL TEXT
- 12/21/15 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101918D pdf | impact statement
- 01/19/16 Senate: Committee substitute printed 16104529D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/24/16 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB79ER) pdf
- 03/01/16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0207) pdf
HISTORY
- 12/21/15 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101918D
- 12/21/15 Senate: Referred to Committee on Local Government
- 01/19/16 Senate: Reported from Local Government with substitute (12-Y 0-N)
- 01/19/16 Senate: Committee substitute printed 16104529D-S1
- 01/19/16 Senate: Incorporates SB134
- 01/21/16 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 01/25/16 Senate: Read second time
- 01/25/16 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/25/16 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 16104529D-S1
- 01/25/16 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB79S1
- 01/26/16 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/16 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/03/16 House: Read first time
- 02/03/16 House: Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
- 02/19/16 House: Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/16 House: Read second time
- 02/23/16 House: Read third time
- 02/23/16 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/16 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/16 House: Reconsideration of House passage agreed to by House
- 02/23/16 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/16 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE #2 (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/16 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/24/16 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB79ER)
- 02/24/16 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/25/16 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/25/16 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/25/16
- 02/25/16 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 3, 2016
- 03/01/16 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 207 (effective 7/1/16)
- 03/01/16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0207)