Bill Text: TX HB4183 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to addressing adverse childhood experiences and developing a strategic plan to address those experiences.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-5)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-15 - Left pending in committee [HB4183 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4183-Engrossed.html
By: Parker, Zerwas, Miller, | H.B. No. 4183 | |
Thompson of Harris, Sanford, et al. |
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relating to addressing adverse childhood experiences and | ||
developing a strategic plan to address those experiences. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 531.0222 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.0222. COORDINATION TO ADDRESS ADVERSE CHILDHOOD | ||
EXPERIENCES; PROGRESS REPORT AND STRATEGIC PLAN. (a) In this | ||
section, "adverse childhood experience" includes: | ||
(1) abuse as defined by Section 261.001, Family Code; | ||
(2) neglect as defined by Section 261.001, Family | ||
Code; | ||
(3) family violence as defined by Section 71.004, | ||
Family Code; | ||
(4) death of a parent; | ||
(5) parental separation or divorce; and | ||
(6) substance use disorder, mental illness, or | ||
incarceration of a member of a child's household. | ||
(b) A program, service, or support established under this | ||
section may not include sex education. | ||
(c) In order to reduce exposure of children in this state to | ||
adverse childhood experiences and to address the social, health, | ||
and economic impacts of those experiences, the commission, in | ||
collaboration with the Department of Family and Protective | ||
Services, the Department of State Health Services, the Texas | ||
Education Agency, the Texas Workforce Commission, the office of the | ||
attorney general, the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, and an | ||
institution of higher education, as defined by Section 61.003, | ||
Education Code, with expertise in addressing adverse childhood | ||
experiences through a public health framework shall: | ||
(1) analyze data related to the causes and effects of | ||
adverse childhood experiences, including data from the Behavioral | ||
Risk Factor Surveillance System established by the Centers for | ||
Disease Control and Prevention of the United States Public Health | ||
Service; | ||
(2) evaluate prevention needs and gaps in services and | ||
support regarding awareness, assessments, and interventions | ||
addressing adverse childhood experiences; | ||
(3) identify methods to incorporate best practices for | ||
preventing and treating adverse childhood experiences into | ||
existing services and support programs offered for children and | ||
families; and | ||
(4) develop and implement a five-year strategic plan | ||
to prevent and address adverse childhood experiences. | ||
(d) In developing the five-year strategic plan under | ||
Subsection (c)(4), the commission may collaborate with | ||
representatives of: | ||
(1) state and local agencies and nonprofit | ||
organizations that work directly with children and families; | ||
(2) child welfare services providers; | ||
(3) early childhood education programs; | ||
(4) public schools; | ||
(5) medical and mental health services providers; | ||
(6) family support and social services providers; | ||
(7) the law enforcement, judicial, and criminal | ||
justice communities; | ||
(8) faith-based organizations; | ||
(9) the intellectual or developmental disability | ||
community; | ||
(10) families and children impacted by adverse | ||
childhood experiences; and | ||
(11) the business and philanthropic communities. | ||
(e) The strategic plan must incorporate a public health | ||
approach that promotes collaboration between agencies and | ||
community-based providers. The strategic plan may include | ||
strategies to: | ||
(1) train and educate professionals to assess, | ||
intervene, and prevent adverse childhood experiences; | ||
(2) provide trauma-informed practices for families, | ||
children, and providers impacted by adverse childhood experiences; | ||
(3) provide high quality child care; | ||
(4) provide support to parents to develop social and | ||
economic independence; | ||
(5) provide support to strengthen the engagement of | ||
fathers in their children's lives and establish paternity; | ||
(6) incorporate voluntary, evidence-based home | ||
visiting programs to strengthen families and to connect families to | ||
community resources; | ||
(7) develop parental support programs for teen parents | ||
and young mothers; | ||
(8) develop parental education training and | ||
counseling programs; | ||
(9) identify best practices for child protective | ||
services and investigations; | ||
(10) prevent and treat mental illness and substance | ||
use disorder; | ||
(11) prevent | ||
family violence; and | ||
(12) prevent chronic diseases related to adverse | ||
childhood experiences. | ||
(f) The entities listed in Subsection (c) shall develop a | ||
community awareness approach to implement the strategies and | ||
recommendations in the strategic plan required under Subsection | ||
(c)(4). | ||
(g) The entities listed in Subsection (c) shall publish the | ||
five-year strategic plan required by Subsection (c)(4) on their | ||
respective Internet websites. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than March 1, 2020, the Health and | ||
Human Services Commission shall develop a progress report to | ||
include data, best practices, and implementable changes within the | ||
commission's current capacity. | ||
SECTION 3. Not later than December 31, 2020, the Health and | ||
Human Services Commission shall: | ||
(1) develop the five-year strategic plan required by | ||
Section 531.0222(c)(4), Government Code, as added by this Act; and | ||
(2) submit a report to the Senate Health and Human | ||
Services Committee, the Senate Education Committee, the Senate | ||
Criminal Justice Committee, the House Public Education Committee, | ||
the House Juvenile Justice and Family Issues Committee, the House | ||
Public Health Committee, and the House Human Services Committee | ||
regarding the commission's strategies for preventing and treating | ||
adverse childhood experiences and any plan to incorporate those | ||
strategies into existing services and support programs for children | ||
and families. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |