Bill Text: TX HB1457 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to required military informed care or military cultural competency training for certain personnel of entities that provide mental health services to veterans or veterans' families before award of a state agency grant.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1457 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1457-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1457 |
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relating to required military informed care or military cultural | ||
competency training for certain personnel of entities that provide | ||
mental health services to veterans or veterans' families before | ||
award of a state agency grant. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 434.352, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows: | ||
(e) A state agency may not award a grant to an entity for the | ||
provision of mental health services to veterans or veterans' | ||
families unless the entity demonstrates the entity: | ||
(1) has previously received and successfully executed | ||
a grant from the state agency; or | ||
(2) provides training on military informed care or | ||
military cultural competency to entity personnel who provide mental | ||
health services to veterans or veterans' families or requires those | ||
personnel to complete military competency training provided by any | ||
of the following: | ||
(A) the commission; | ||
(B) the Health and Human Services Commission; | ||
(C) the Military Veteran Peer Network; | ||
(D) the Substance Abuse and Mental Health | ||
Services Administration within the United States Department of | ||
Health and Human Services; | ||
(E) the United States Department of Defense; | ||
(F) the United States Department of Veterans | ||
Affairs; or | ||
(G) a nonprofit organization that is exempt from | ||
federal income taxation under Section 501(a), Internal Revenue Code | ||
of 1986, by being listed as an exempt entity under Section 501(c)(3) | ||
of that code, with experience in providing training or technical | ||
assistance to entities that provide mental health services to | ||
veterans or veterans' families. | ||
(f) The commission and the Department of State Health | ||
Services shall jointly verify that each state agency authorized to | ||
award a grant subject to the requirements of Subsection (e) has | ||
adopted policies to ensure compliance with Subsection (e). | ||
SECTION 2. The heading to Subchapter I, Chapter 1001, | ||
Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER I. MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES [ |
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SECTION 3. Subchapter I, Chapter 1001, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 1001.225 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1001.225. LIMITATION ON GRANTS. The department may | ||
not award a grant to an entity for the provision of mental health | ||
services to veterans or veterans' families unless the entity | ||
demonstrates the entity: | ||
(1) has previously received and successfully executed | ||
a grant from the department; or | ||
(2) provides training on military informed care or | ||
military cultural competency to entity personnel who provide | ||
mental health services to veterans or veterans' families or | ||
requires those personnel to complete military competency training | ||
provided by any of the following: | ||
(A) the Texas Veterans Commission; | ||
(B) the commission; | ||
(C) the Military Veteran Peer Network; | ||
(D) the Substance Abuse and Mental Health | ||
Services Administration within the United States Department of | ||
Health and Human Services; | ||
(E) the United States Department of Defense; | ||
(F) the United States Department of Veterans | ||
Affairs; or | ||
(G) a nonprofit organization that is exempt from | ||
federal income taxation under Section 501(a), Internal Revenue Code | ||
of 1986, by being listed as an exempt entity under Section 501(c)(3) | ||
of that code, with experience in providing training or technical | ||
assistance to entities that provide mental health services to | ||
veterans or veterans' families. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1457 was passed by the House on May 8, | ||
2023, by the following vote: Yeas 124, Nays 18, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1457 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
19, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |