Lawmakers Advance Student Suicide Prevention Bill

(Columbia, SC) -- South Carolina lawmakers are advancing a bill to get the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in front of adolescents. 

A bill approved unanimously by the House and Senate would put that phone number on student identification cards. 

Public schools will also be required to include information for a second crisis hotline number of the schools' choosing. 

If Governor McMaster signs the bill into law, the new rules will go into effect in July of 2022.


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