Update: #ClayHunt SAV Act passes House unanimously; Rep. Walz's floor speech [video]

The voting is underway and we'll post the final tally here when it's in.

The #ClayHunt SAV Act passes the House unanimously 403-0! On to the Senate. #VetsRising! pic.twitter.com/EFE7fHqKB1

— IAVA (@iava) January 13, 2015

As we noted in our January 7 post, Walz and co-sponsors reintroduce Clay Hunt SAV Act to address veteran suicide:

Last year, in Some legacy, Tom Coburn: Representative Walz's statement on blocking of Clay Hunt SAV Act, we'd posted about the failure of the bill to come to the floor of the Senate for a vote.

Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, is gone, retired, and the bill is back.

According to a press release from Congressman Walz's office:

Today, Representatives Tim Walz (D-MN), Chairman of the VA Committee Jeff Miller (R-FL), and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) announced the reintroduction of the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans (Clay Hunt SAV) Act, a bill supported by veterans and their advocates to help prevent veteran suicide and ensure our nations heroes get the care and support they need.

The legislation, named in honor of the late Iraq and Afghanistan War Veteran and suicide prevention advocateClay Hunt, unanimously passed the House of Representatives in the 113^th Congress and had broad support in the Senate, but was blocked from becoming law by a lone Senator. Representatives Walz, Miller, and Duckworth first introduced their bipartisan legislation last summer after spending months working together to write final legislation with veterans and their advocates.