Mental health commission proposal up for vote in House
Nearly one in five adults, or 51.5 million people, live with a mental illness.
The state may soon assemble a commission to study mental health issues under a bill awaiting consideration by the Florida House.
The bill (
Christine Hunschofsky, would create a 19-member Mental Health and Substance Abuse Commission. According to a staff analysis, the commission would examine the state’s mental health and substance abuse services.
Notably, Hunschofsky is serving her first term in the House after leading as Parkland Mayor at the time of the attack.
“In the wake of the Parkland shootings, as Mayor, I saw first-hand how our labyrinthian system of providing mental health services hindered healing for too many families I vowed then to fix that and this bill is a badly needed first step in doing that,” Hunschofsky said in March.