Bill Text: TX HB1070 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the mental health first aid training program reporting requirements.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-6)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 1, 2019 [HB1070 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB1070-Comm_Sub.html
  86R2908 EAS-D
 
  By: Price, Thompson of Harris, Coleman, H.B. No. 1070
      Bonnen of Galveston, Sheffield, et al.
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the mental health first aid training program reporting
  requirements.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 1001.205, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 1001.205.  REPORTS. (a)  Not later than September 30 of
  each year, a local mental health authority shall provide to the
  department the number of:
               (1)  employees and contractors of the authority who
  were trained as mental health first aid trainers under Section
  1001.202 during the preceding fiscal year, the number of trainers
  who left the program for any reason during the preceding fiscal
  year, and the number of active trainers;
               (2)  university employees, school district employees,
  and school resource officers who completed a mental health first
  aid training program offered by the authority under Section
  1001.203 during the preceding fiscal year categorized by local
  mental health authority region, school district, and category of
  personnel; and
               (3)  individuals who are not university employees,
  school district employees, or school resource officers who
  completed a mental health first aid training program offered by the
  authority during the preceding fiscal year.
         (b)  Not later than December 1 of each year, the department
  shall compile the information submitted by local mental health
  authorities as required by Subsection (a) and submit a report to the
  legislature containing [the number of]:
               (1)  the number of authority employees and contractors
  trained as mental health first aid trainers during the preceding
  fiscal year, the number of trainers who left the program for any
  reason during the preceding fiscal year, and the number of active
  trainers;
               (2)  the number of university employees, school
  district employees, and school resource officers who completed a
  mental health first aid training program provided by an authority
  during the preceding fiscal year categorized by local mental health
  authority region, school district, and category of personnel; [and]
               (3)  the number of individuals who are not university
  employees, school district employees, or school resource officers
  who completed a mental health first aid training program provided
  by an authority during the preceding fiscal year; and
               (4)  a detailed accounting of expenditures of money
  appropriated for the purpose of implementing this subchapter.
         SECTION 2.  (a)  Section 1001.205(a), Health and Safety
  Code, as amended by this Act, applies only to a report due under
  that subsection after September 30, 2019. A report due under that
  subsection before that date is governed by the law in effect
  immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
  continued in effect for that purpose.
         (b)  Section 1001.205(b), Health and Safety Code, as amended
  by this Act, applies only to a report due under that subsection
  after December 1, 2019. A report due under that subsection before
  that date is governed by the law in effect immediately before the
  effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for
  that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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