Bill Text: TX HB1600 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 1600 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to certain mental health screenings under the Texas Health Steps program.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)

Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1600 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB1600-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Thompson of Harris, et al.	H.B. No. 1600
	(Senate Sponsor - Watson)
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 20, 2017;
	May 8, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Health &
	Human Services; May 17, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable
	Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0;
	May 17, 2017, sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1600	By: Watson


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to certain mental health screenings under the Texas Health
	Steps program.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code,
	is amended by adding Section 32.0249 to read as follows:
	Sec. 32.0249. MENTAL HEALTH SCREENINGS IN TEXAS HEALTH
	STEPS PROGRAM. The executive commissioner, in the rules governing
	the Texas Health Steps program, shall allow a provider to:
	(1) conduct a mental health screening using one or
	more validated, standardized mental health screening tools during
	each annual medical exam of a recipient who is at least 12 years of
	age but younger than 19 years of age; and
	(2) be reimbursed for conducting one mental health
	screening using one or more validated, standardized mental health
	screening tools during each annual medical exam of a recipient
	described by Subdivision (1).
	SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act
	a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a
	federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision,
	the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or
	authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the
	waiver or authorization is granted.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.

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