Bill Text: TX HB4041 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a suicide prevention policy in residential child-care facilities and child-placing agencies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-12 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB4041 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4041-Introduced.html
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By: Neave | H.B. No. 4041 |
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relating to a suicide prevention policy in residential child-care | ||
facilities and child-placing agencies. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 42, Human Resources Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 42.0433 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 42.0433. SUICIDE PREVENTION, INTERVENTION, AND | ||
POSTVENTION PLAN. (a) In this section, "postvention" has the | ||
meaning assigned by Section 38.351, Education Code. | ||
(b) The executive commissioner by rule shall adopt a model | ||
suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention policy for use by | ||
a residential child-care facility. The model policy must: | ||
(1) be based on current and best evidence-based | ||
practices; | ||
(2) require all employees of the facility to receive | ||
annual suicide prevention training that includes understanding of | ||
safety planning and screening for risk; | ||
(3) promote suicide prevention training for | ||
non-employee entities, as appropriate; and | ||
(4) include procedures to support children who return | ||
to the facility following hospitalization for a mental health | ||
condition. | ||
(c) Each residential child-care facility shall adopt a | ||
suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention policy. A | ||
residential child-care facility may adopt: | ||
(1) the model policy adopted by the executive | ||
commissioner under Subsection (b); or | ||
(2) another suicide prevention, intervention, and | ||
postvention policy approved by the executive commissioner. | ||
(d) The suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention | ||
policy adopted under Subsection (c) may be part of a broader mental | ||
health crisis plan if the components of the plan include suicide | ||
prevention, intervention, and postvention. | ||
(e) The commission shall provide to a residential | ||
child-care facility any technical assistance necessary to adopt or | ||
implement a suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention | ||
policy. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 42.252(c), Human Resources Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(c) The operational plan must include: | ||
(1) a community engagement plan to develop and, if | ||
necessary, improve relations between the general residential | ||
operation and the community in which the operation is located that | ||
includes: | ||
(A) a summary of any discussions the operation | ||
had with: | ||
(i) local law enforcement; and | ||
(ii) local health, therapeutic, and | ||
recreational resources available to support children at the | ||
operation; and | ||
(B) a summary of the opportunities the children | ||
at the operation will have for social interaction in the community; | ||
(2) an educational plan describing the applicant's | ||
plan to provide for the educational needs of the children at the | ||
general residential operation that: | ||
(A) identifies whether the proposed operation | ||
will provide for the public or private education of school-age | ||
children at the operation; | ||
(B) identifies whether the proposed operation | ||
will provide for the education of school-age children through a | ||
local school, off-site charter school, or on-site charter school; | ||
(C) includes any discussions, plans, and | ||
agreements with the local school district, private school, or local | ||
charter school that will be providing education to the school-age | ||
children at the operation; and | ||
(D) if the children are to be enrolled in a public | ||
school, includes either: | ||
(i) a statement from the local independent | ||
school district on the impact of the proposed child-care services | ||
on the local school district; or | ||
(ii) an explanation of the reasons the | ||
operation was unable to obtain a statement described by | ||
Subparagraph (i) and a discussion of other alternative educational | ||
services that the operation could offer; | ||
(3) a trauma-informed plan to address unauthorized | ||
absences of children from the general residential operation; [ |
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(4) a suicide prevention, intervention, and | ||
postvention plan that meets the requirements of Section 42.0433; | ||
and | ||
(5) the qualifications, background, and history, | ||
including any compliance history, of each individual who is | ||
proposed to be involved in: | ||
(A) the management of the operation; and | ||
(B) the educational leadership of the operation | ||
if the operation will be using an on-site charter school. | ||
SECTION 3. Not later than July 1, 2022, the | ||
executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission | ||
shall adopt the model suicide prevention, intervention, and | ||
postvention policy required by Section 42.0433, Human Resources | ||
Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |