HB4425ham001 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Daniel Didech

Filed: 2/4/2022

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4425

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4425 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Crisis Intervention Training Program for the Law Enforcement, Firefighter, Emergency Medical, Public Safety Telecommunicator, and Corrections Communities Act.

Section 5. Crisis intervention training program. Subject to appropriation, the Department of Human Services shall establish and maintain a program to contract with qualified crisis intervention training entities for the purpose of providing peer support crisis intervention, counseling, and wellness for the law enforcement, firefighter, emergency medical, public safety telecommunicator, and corrections communities impacted by trauma, cumulative stress, anxiety, addictions, death, and suicide and the impact on their personal lives. Wellness strategies, required under this Section, shall include, but not be limited to, resilience trainings related to resiliency for the job, emotional survival, substance abuse prevention, financial and relationship strategies, and suicide prevention.

As used in this Section, "qualified crisis intervention training entity" means an entity approved by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation to instruct the Critical Incident Stress Management crisis intervention process or any other public or private entity approved by the Department to provide the services required under this Act.

The Department may adopt any rules necessary for the administration of the program.".