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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 5742
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 5681
Referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS
Introduced by:
(APP)
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E USE OF COVID-19 RELIEF FUNDS FOR
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, MENTAL HEALTH, SUICIDE PREVENTION
AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICE PROVIDERS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective from passage) The Secretary of the Office of 1
Policy and Management shall distribute ____ dollars, from the 2
undisbursed portion of funds received by the state pursuant to the 3
Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, P.L. 116-136, as 4
amended from time to time, and the Coronavirus Response and Relief 5
Supplemental Appropriations Act, P.L. 116-260, as amended from time 6
to time, as grants to private providers of domestic violence, mental 7
health, suicide prevention and substance abuse services for individuals 8
experiencing such issues as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. As used 9
in this section, "COVID-19" means the respiratory disease designated by 10
the World Health Organization on February 11, 2020, as coronavirus 11
2019, and any related mutation thereof recognized by the World Health 12
Organization as a communicable respiratory disease. 13
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
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Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require that a portion of COVID-19 relief funds be used to provide
additional funding for domestic violence, mental health, suicide
prevention and substance abuse services for persons suffering as a result
of the COVID-19 pandemic.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: REP. CANDELORA, 86th Dist.; REP. DEVLIN, 134th Dist.
REP. O'DEA, 125th Dist.; REP. PERILLO, 113th Dist.
REP. REBIMBAS, 70th Dist.; REP. ZUPKUS, 89th Dist.
REP. FISHBEIN, 90th Dist.; REP. CARNEY, 23rd Dist.
REP. ZAWISTOWSKI, 61st Dist.; REP. FRANCE, 42nd Dist.
REP. FERRARO, 117th Dist.
H.B. 5742