Bill Text: TX HB197 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to requiring certain public institutions of higher education to post information regarding mental health resources on the institution's Internet website.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB197 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB197-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 197 | ||
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| relating to requiring certain public institutions of higher | ||
| education to post information regarding mental health resources on | ||
| the institution's Internet website. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 51.9193 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.9193. REQUIRED POSTING OF MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES. | ||
| (a) In this section, "local mental health authority" has the | ||
| meaning assigned by Section 531.002, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (b) This section applies only to a general academic teaching | ||
| institution, medical and dental unit, public junior college, public | ||
| state college, or public technical institute as those terms are | ||
| defined by Section 61.003. | ||
| (c) Each institution to which this section applies shall | ||
| create a web page on the institution's Internet website dedicated | ||
| solely to information regarding the mental health resources | ||
| available to students at the institution. The web page must include | ||
| the address of the nearest local mental health authority. | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, each public institution of higher education to which | ||
| Section 51.9193, Education Code, as added by this Act, applies | ||
| shall post on its Internet website the information required by that | ||
| section. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 197 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 9, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 3, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 197 on May 21, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 1, 1 | ||
| present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 197 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 20, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
