HB 2024

                                                   PRINTER'S NO.   2583
                   THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
                       HOUSE BILL
                       No. 2024
                                             Session of
                                               2025
 INTRODUCED BY SHUSTERMAN, SCHEUREN, GUENST, HILL-EVANS, KUZMA,
    WEBSTER, PROBST, PIELLI, RIVERA, SANCHEZ, HOWARD, MARCELL,
    E. NELSON, CEPEDA-FREYTIZ, MAKO, WHITE, MAJOR, MIHALEK,
    O'NEAL, NEILSON, D. WILLIAMS, POWELL, INGLIS, BELLMON AND
    BOROWSKI, NOVEMBER 10, 2025
 REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY
    PREPAREDNESS, NOVEMBER 12, 2025
                                  AN ACT
1 Amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania
2    Consolidated Statutes, in State Veterans' Commission and
3    Deputy Adjutant General for Veterans' Affairs, further
4    providing for accreditation.
5    The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7    Section 1.      Section 1731(d) of Title 51 of the Pennsylvania
8 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a paragraph to read:
9 § 1731.    Accreditation.
10    * * *
11    (d)    Office duties.--The Office of the Deputy Adjutant
12 General for Veterans' Affairs shall establish a county director
13 of veterans affairs training program, agreed upon with the State
14 Association of County Directors of Veterans Affairs, which shall
15 include the following:
16* * *
17(5)   Training on a wide range of veteran-related topics,
1   including trauma-informed care, military sexual trauma, post-
2   traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury and other
3   forms of trauma-informed care.
4   Section 2.    This act shall take effect in 180 days.
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