Bill Text: TX HB405 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to designating June as Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Awareness Month.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-24 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB405 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB405-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 405 |
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relating to designating June as Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome | ||
Awareness Month. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 662, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 662.112 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 662.112. NEONATAL ABSTINENCE SYNDROME AWARENESS | ||
MONTH. June is Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Awareness Month to | ||
increase awareness of neonatal abstinence syndrome and to | ||
encourage: | ||
(1) awareness of the dangers of opioid and substance | ||
abuse during pregnancy to prevent neonatal abstinence syndrome; | ||
(2) the creation and update of lists of recommended | ||
materials to address neonatal abstinence syndrome available | ||
through the Department of State Health Services and the Health and | ||
Human Services Commission; | ||
(3) electronic circulation of and posting on state and | ||
local agency websites of recommended treatment and recovery | ||
resources; | ||
(4) the availability of resources for mothers-to-be | ||
and new mothers with substance abuse disorders, including health | ||
care services and recovery support services; and | ||
(5) collaboration between state and federal | ||
governmental agencies, hospitals, private health care practices, | ||
health insurance providers, Medicaid providers, and mental health | ||
agencies to increase awareness. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 405 was passed by the House on April | ||
2, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 405 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
10, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |