Bill Text: TX HB253 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to a strategic plan to address postpartum depression.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB253 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB253-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to a strategic plan to address postpartum depression.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB253 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB253-Engrossed.html
By: Farrar, Minjarez, Guillen, et al. | H.B. No. 253 |
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relating to a strategic plan to address postpartum depression. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 32.046 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 32.046. POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION STRATEGIC PLAN. (a) | ||
The commission shall develop and implement a five-year strategic | ||
plan to improve access to postpartum depression screening, | ||
referral, treatment, and support services. Not later than | ||
September 1 of the last fiscal year in each five-year period, the | ||
commission shall develop a new strategic plan for the next five | ||
fiscal years beginning with the following fiscal year. | ||
(b) The strategic plan must provide strategies to: | ||
(1) increase awareness among state-administered | ||
program providers who may serve women who are at risk of or are | ||
experiencing postpartum depression about the prevalence and | ||
effects of postpartum depression on outcomes for women and | ||
children; | ||
(2) establish a referral network of community-based | ||
mental health providers and support services addressing postpartum | ||
depression; | ||
(3) increase women's access to formal and informal | ||
peer support services, including access to certified peer | ||
specialists who have received additional training related to | ||
postpartum depression; | ||
(4) raise public awareness of and reduce the stigma | ||
related to postpartum depression; and | ||
(5) leverage sources of funding to support existing | ||
community-based postpartum depression screening, referral, | ||
treatment, and support services. | ||
(c) The commission shall coordinate with the department, | ||
the statewide health coordinating council, the office of mental | ||
health coordination, and the statewide behavioral health | ||
coordinating council in developing the strategic plan. | ||
(d) The commission, in consultation with the department, | ||
the statewide health coordinating council, the office of mental | ||
health coordination, and the statewide behavioral health | ||
coordinating council, shall annually review and update, as | ||
necessary, the strategic plan. | ||
(e) For purposes of this section, "postpartum depression" | ||
means a disorder in which a woman experiences moderate to severe | ||
depression following a pregnancy, regardless of whether the | ||
pregnancy resulted in birth, or an act defined by Section | ||
245.002(1). | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than September 1, 2020, the Health and | ||
Human Services Commission shall develop the initial strategic plan | ||
required by Section 32.046, Health and Safety Code, as added by this | ||
Act. | ||
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. |