Health professionals; mandatory suicide training required.

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Health professionals; mandatory suicide training required. Requires health care professionals to complete training in suicide assessment, treatment, and management. The bill requires counselors, licensed substance abuse treatment practitioners, marriage and family therapists, behavioral health technicians, qualified mental health professionals, occupational therapists, psychologists, and social workers to complete such training at least once every six years and requires other health professional…

Source: OpenStates · fetched February 12, 2026

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Parent / guardiandirectModerate impactMedium certainty
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Health professionals; mandatory suicide training required.
Student / education borrowerdirectModerate impactMedium certainty
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Health professionals; mandatory suicide training required.

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Health professionals; mandatory suicide training required.

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