Bill Text: TX HB2160 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to mental health professional staffing requirements at law schools at public institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-09 - Referred to Higher Education [HB2160 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2160-Introduced.html
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| By: Hinojosa | H.B. No. 2160 | |
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| relating to mental health professional staffing requirements at law | ||
| schools at public institutions of higher education. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 51.9197 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.9197. MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL STAFFING | ||
| REQUIREMENT. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
| (2) "Mental health professional" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 164.003, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (b) Each law school at an institution of higher education | ||
| shall ensure that at least one full-time equivalent mental health | ||
| professional is available at the school. | ||
| (c) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall | ||
| adopt rules as necessary to administer this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 51.9197, Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies beginning with the 2023-2024 academic year. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
