Bill Text: TX HB4429 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to mental health first aid training for veterans and immediate family members of veterans.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB4429 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4429-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 4429 |
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relating to mental health first aid training for veterans and | ||
immediate family members of veterans. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 434.352(b), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b) For the mental health program for veterans, the | ||
commission shall: | ||
(1) provide training to peer service coordinators and | ||
peers in accordance with Section 434.353; | ||
(2) provide technical assistance to peer service | ||
coordinators and peers; | ||
(3) identify, train, and communicate with | ||
community-based licensed mental health professionals, | ||
community-based organizations, and faith-based organizations; | ||
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(4) coordinate services for justice involved | ||
veterans; and | ||
(5) coordinate local delivery to veterans and | ||
immediate family members of veterans of mental health first aid for | ||
veterans training. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 1001.205, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1001.205. REPORTS. (a) Not later than September 30 of | ||
each year, a local mental health authority shall provide to the | ||
department the number of: | ||
(1) employees and contractors of the authority who | ||
were trained as mental health first aid trainers under Section | ||
1001.202 during the preceding fiscal year; | ||
(2) university employees, school district employees, | ||
and school resource officers who completed a mental health first | ||
aid training program offered by the authority under Section | ||
1001.203 during the preceding fiscal year; [ |
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(3) individuals who are not university employees, | ||
school district employees, or school resource officers who | ||
completed a mental health first aid training program offered by the | ||
authority during the preceding fiscal year; and | ||
(4) veterans and immediate family members of veterans | ||
who completed the veterans module of a mental health first aid | ||
training program offered by the authority during the preceding | ||
fiscal year. | ||
(b) Not later than December 1 of each year, the department | ||
shall compile the information submitted by local mental health | ||
authorities as required by Subsection (a) and submit a report to the | ||
legislature containing the number of: | ||
(1) authority employees and contractors trained as | ||
mental health first aid trainers during the preceding fiscal year; | ||
(2) university employees, school district employees, | ||
and school resource officers who completed a mental health first | ||
aid training program provided by an authority during the preceding | ||
fiscal year; [ |
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(3) individuals who are not university employees, | ||
school district employees, or school resource officers who | ||
completed a mental health first aid training program provided by an | ||
authority during the preceding fiscal year; and | ||
(4) veterans and immediate family members of veterans | ||
who completed the veterans module of a mental health first aid | ||
training program provided by an authority during the preceding | ||
fiscal year. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 1001.222(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The department shall develop a mental health | ||
intervention program for veterans. The program must include: | ||
(1) peer-to-peer counseling; | ||
(2) access to licensed mental health professionals for | ||
peer service coordinators and peers; | ||
(3) training approved by the department for peer | ||
service coordinators, licensed mental health professionals, and | ||
peers; | ||
(4) technical assistance for peer service | ||
coordinators, licensed mental health professionals, and peers; | ||
(5) identification, retention, and screening of | ||
community-based licensed mental health professionals; | ||
(6) suicide prevention training for peer service | ||
coordinators and peers; [ |
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(7) veteran jail diversion services, including | ||
veterans treatment courts; and | ||
(8) coordination of mental health first aid for | ||
veterans training to veterans and immediate family members of | ||
veterans. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 4429 was passed by the House on April | ||
30, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 4429 on May 24, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 1, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 4429 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays | ||
1. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |