Legislation supported by Ottawa Democrat St. Rep Lance Yednock will require a task force to guarantee mental health service to first responders.
The Illinois First Responders Suicide Prevention Task Force was created in 2019 to look for ways to help first responders.
This new law would require the task force to guarantee services like peer support groups.
Yednock says recent studies have shown that their health and wellbeing is often not accounted for as it needs to be.
The Center for Disease Control says first responders may be at an elevated risk for suicide because of where they work and what they see.