{"id":12677,"date":"2020-10-23T16:40:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T16:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=12677"},"modified":"2020-10-23T16:40:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T16:40:09","slug":"legislative-news-10-23-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/legislative-news-10-23-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative News, 10\/23\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><b>Federal news<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/senate-bill\/2661\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S.2661 &#8211; National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020<\/a> [became Public Law 116-172 on 10\/17\/2020]<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"margin-left: .5in;\">To designate 9-8-8 as the universal telephone number for a national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/senate-bill\/785\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S.785 &#8211; Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act of 2019<\/a> [became Public Law 116-171 on 10\/17\/2020]<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"margin-left: .5in;\">This bill makes updates related to Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) transition assistance, mental health care, care for women veterans, and telehealth care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal news S.2661 &#8211; National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020 [became Public Law 116-172 on 10\/17\/2020] To designate 9-8-8 as the universal telephone number for a national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline. S.785 &#8211; Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act of 2019 [became Public Law 116-171 on 10\/17\/2020]&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}