Governor Jerry Brown has signed a suicide prevention bill that seeks to amend the state’s Education Act and require schools to print suicide prevention hotlines on students’ identification cards.
SB 972, authored by Pasadena-area Senator Anthony Portantino, requires the printing of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, the Crisis Text Line, and a local suicide prevention hotline number, on the ID cards of students in public, charter, and private schools serving pupils in grades 7 to 12 and those in higher education.
