Bill Text: TX SB2395 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of on-campus mental health services by a school district and reimbursement under Medicaid for certain services provided to eligible students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Education [SB2395 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2395-Introduced.html
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By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 2395 |
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relating to the provision of on-campus mental health services by a | ||
school district and reimbursement under Medicaid for certain | ||
services provided to eligible students. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Sections 38.034 and 38.035 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 38.034. ON-CAMPUS MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. (a) A | ||
school district may contract with a local mental health authority | ||
to provide mental health services on a campus of the district. | ||
(b) At the request of a student's parent or guardian, a | ||
local mental health authority providing on-campus mental health | ||
services that conducts a mental health or behavioral health | ||
assessment of the student or provides mental health or behavioral | ||
health services to the student shall provide to the student's | ||
primary care physician the results of the assessment conducted and, | ||
if applicable, the results of any services provided. | ||
Sec. 38.035. REIMBURSEMENT UNDER MEDICAID. The Health and | ||
Human Services Commission shall allow a school district to enroll | ||
as a provider under the medical assistance program under Chapter | ||
32, Human Resources Code, to provide and receive reimbursement for | ||
the provision of mental health services to district students who | ||
are medical assistance recipients. | ||
SECTION 2. 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. |