With the suicide lifeline bill's defeat, funding for service will rest on budget negotiations | Wyoming
This year’s 988 suicide lifeline funding bill is moot. But funding for the lifeline could still survive the session.
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This year’s 988 suicide lifeline funding bill is moot. But funding for the lifeline could still survive the session.
An emotional debate broke out Thursday in the Wyoming House about what it means to be fiscally conservative when a budget amendment was brought to bolster benefits for families of
CHEYENNE — A $40 million allocation for 988 hotline operations is still alive in the Wyoming House of Representatives, but since lawmakers must reconcile a $900 million difference in the
This year’s 988 lifeline funding bill failed to meet a procedural deadline. But a budget amendment lawmakers adopted last week could keep funding alive through the session.
CHEYENNE — A $40 million allocation for 988 hotline operations is still alive in the Wyoming House of Representatives, but since lawmakers must reconcile a $900 million difference in the