Bill Text: TX HB2079 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the designation of May as Postpartum Depression Awareness Month.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB2079 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2079-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2079 | ||
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| relating to the designation of May as Postpartum Depression | ||
| Awareness Month. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 662, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 662.110 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 662.110. POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION AWARENESS MONTH. (a) | ||
| May is Postpartum Depression Awareness Month to increase awareness | ||
| of postpartum depression and to encourage: | ||
| (1) the identification of signs, symptoms, and | ||
| treatment options for postpartum depression; | ||
| (2) the creation and update of lists of recommended | ||
| materials for perinatal mental health available through the | ||
| Department of State Health Services and the Health and Human | ||
| Services Commission; | ||
| (3) electronic circulation of and posting on state and | ||
| local agency websites of recommended postpartum depression | ||
| resources; | ||
| (4) mothers-to-be and new mothers to be screened for | ||
| postpartum depression using validated survey instruments; and | ||
| (5) collaboration between governmental agencies, | ||
| educational institutions, hospitals, private health care | ||
| practices, health insurance providers, Medicaid providers, and | ||
| mental health agencies to increase awareness of postpartum | ||
| affective illness. | ||
| (b) Postpartum Depression Awareness Month shall be | ||
| regularly observed through appropriate programs and activities to | ||
| increase awareness of postpartum depression. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2079 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 30, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 4, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2079 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
