Bill Text: TX HB253 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a strategic plan to address postpartum depression.
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB253 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB253-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 253 | ||
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| relating to a strategic plan to address postpartum depression. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 32.046 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 32.046. POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION STRATEGIC PLAN. (a) | ||
| The commission shall develop and implement a five-year strategic | ||
| plan to improve access to postpartum depression screening, | ||
| referral, treatment, and support services. Not later than | ||
| September 1 of the last fiscal year in each five-year period, the | ||
| commission shall develop a new strategic plan for the next five | ||
| fiscal years beginning with the following fiscal year. | ||
| (b) The strategic plan must provide strategies to: | ||
| (1) increase awareness among state-administered | ||
| program providers who may serve women who are at risk of or are | ||
| experiencing postpartum depression about the prevalence and | ||
| effects of postpartum depression on outcomes for women and | ||
| children; | ||
| (2) establish a referral network of community-based | ||
| mental health providers and support services addressing postpartum | ||
| depression; | ||
| (3) increase women's access to formal and informal | ||
| peer support services, including access to certified peer | ||
| specialists who have received additional training related to | ||
| postpartum depression; | ||
| (4) raise public awareness of and reduce the stigma | ||
| related to postpartum depression; and | ||
| (5) leverage sources of funding to support existing | ||
| community-based postpartum depression screening, referral, | ||
| treatment, and support services. | ||
| (c) The commission shall coordinate with the department, | ||
| the statewide health coordinating council, the office of mental | ||
| health coordination, and the statewide behavioral health | ||
| coordinating council in developing the strategic plan. | ||
| (d) The commission, in consultation with the department, | ||
| the statewide health coordinating council, the office of mental | ||
| health coordination, and the statewide behavioral health | ||
| coordinating council, shall annually review and update, as | ||
| necessary, the strategic plan. | ||
| (e) For purposes of this section, "postpartum depression" | ||
| means a disorder in which a woman experiences moderate to severe | ||
| depression following a pregnancy, regardless of whether the | ||
| pregnancy resulted in birth, or an act defined by Section | ||
| 245.002(1). | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than September 1, 2020, the Health and | ||
| Human Services Commission shall develop the initial strategic plan | ||
| required by Section 32.046, Health and Safety Code, as added by this | ||
| Act. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 253 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 16, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 89, Nays 55, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 253 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 15, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
