Bill Text: TX HB1312 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of on-campus mental health services by a school district and reimbursement under Medicaid for certain services provided to eligible students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-22 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1312 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1312-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Moody | H.B. No. 1312 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1312: | |||
| By: Bernal | C.S.H.B. No. 1312 | ||
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| relating to the provision of on-campus mental health services by a | ||
| school district and reimbursement under Medicaid for certain | ||
| services provided to eligible students. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Sections 38.034 and 38.035 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 38.034. ON-CAMPUS MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. (a) A | ||
| school district may contract with a local mental health authority | ||
| to provide mental health services on a campus of the district. | ||
| (b) At the request of a student's parent or guardian, a | ||
| local mental health authority providing on-campus mental health | ||
| services that conducts a mental health or behavioral health | ||
| assessment of the student or provides mental health or behavioral | ||
| health services to the student may provide to the student's primary | ||
| care physician the results of the assessment conducted and, if | ||
| applicable, the results of any services provided. | ||
| Sec. 38.035. REIMBURSEMENT UNDER MEDICAID. The Health and | ||
| Human Services Commission shall allow a school district to enroll | ||
| as a provider under the medical assistance program under Chapter | ||
| 32, Human Resources Code, to provide and receive reimbursement for | ||
| the provision of mental health services to district students who | ||
| are medical assistance recipients. | ||
| SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
| a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a | ||
| federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, | ||
| the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or | ||
| authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the | ||
| waiver or authorization is granted. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
