Bill Text: TX HB2895 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the requirement that certain public institutions of higher education post mental health resources on the institution's Internet website.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB2895 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2895-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2895 |
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relating to the requirement that certain public institutions of | ||
higher education post mental health resources on the institution's | ||
Internet website. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 51.9193, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (d) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(c) Each institution to which this section applies shall: | ||
(1) create a web page on the institution's Internet | ||
website that: | ||
(A) is dedicated solely to information regarding | ||
the mental health resources available to students at the | ||
institution, regardless of whether the resources are provided by | ||
the institution; and | ||
(B) includes[ |
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address of the nearest local mental health authority; and | ||
(2) maintain a conspicuous link on the institution's | ||
Internet website home page to the web page described by Subdivision | ||
(1). | ||
(d) Not later than August 1 of each year, the president or | ||
the president's designee of an institution to which this section | ||
applies shall certify to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating | ||
Board the institution's compliance with this section. | ||
SECTION 2. An institution of higher education to which | ||
Section 51.9193, Education Code, applies shall comply with Section | ||
51.9193(c), Education Code, as amended by this Act, not later than | ||
December 1, 2017. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2895 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
2017, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2895 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |