Bill Text: TX HB1386 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to training and development activities for persons who may interact with an individual with autism or other pervasive developmental disorder.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-02 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB1386 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1386-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to training and development activities for persons who may interact with an individual with autism or other pervasive developmental disorder.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-02 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB1386 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1386-Comm_Sub.html
By: Thompson of Harris (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) | H.B. No. 1386 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 2019; | ||
April 15, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Health & | ||
Human Services; May 17, 2019, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to training and development activities for persons who may | ||
interact with an individual with autism or other pervasive | ||
developmental disorder. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 114.013, Human Resources Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (c) and | ||
(d) to read as follows: | ||
(b) As part of coordinating resources under Subsection (a), | ||
the commission shall: | ||
(1) collect and distribute information and research | ||
regarding autism and other pervasive developmental disorders; | ||
(2) conduct training and development activities for | ||
persons who may interact with an individual with autism or another | ||
pervasive developmental disorder in the course of their employment, | ||
including school, medical, and [ |
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personnel of the Department of Family and Protective Services; | ||
(3) coordinate with local entities that provide | ||
services to an individual with autism or another pervasive | ||
developmental disorder; and | ||
(4) provide support for families affected by autism | ||
and other pervasive developmental disorders. | ||
(c) The commission shall ensure that training and | ||
development activities under this section are: | ||
(1) evidenced-based; | ||
(2) applicable to the professional role of each type | ||
of personnel to be trained under Subsection (b)(2); and | ||
(3) instructive regarding means of effectively | ||
communicating and engaging with individuals with limited social or | ||
verbal abilities. | ||
(d) At least once every five years, in consultation with an | ||
institution of higher education, the commission shall revise the | ||
materials and methods for the training and development activities | ||
to be provided under Subsection (b)(2). | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than September 1, 2024, the executive | ||
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
revise the materials and methods for the training and development | ||
activities to be provided under Section 114.013(b)(2), Human | ||
Resources Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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