Bill Text: TX HB3888 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a school district's plan for parental involvement concerning mental health and substance use issues and suicide prevention.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-23 - Left pending in committee [HB3888 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3888-Introduced.html
86R14067 GCB-F | ||
By: Ramos | H.B. No. 3888 |
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relating to a school district's plan for parental involvement | ||
concerning mental health and substance use issues and suicide | ||
prevention. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 28.004(c), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) The local school health advisory council's duties | ||
include recommending: | ||
(1) the number of hours of instruction to be provided | ||
in health education; | ||
(2) policies, procedures, strategies, and curriculum | ||
appropriate for specific grade levels designed to prevent obesity, | ||
cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes, and mental health | ||
concerns, including suicide, through coordination of: | ||
(A) health education; | ||
(B) physical education and physical activity; | ||
(C) nutrition services; | ||
(D) parental involvement; | ||
(E) instruction to prevent the use of | ||
e-cigarettes, as defined by Section 161.081, Health and Safety | ||
Code, and tobacco; | ||
(F) school health services; | ||
(G) counseling and guidance services; | ||
(H) a safe and healthy school environment; and | ||
(I) school employee wellness; | ||
(3) appropriate grade levels and methods of | ||
instruction for human sexuality instruction; | ||
(4) strategies for integrating the curriculum | ||
components specified by Subdivision (2) with the following elements | ||
in a coordinated school health program for the district: | ||
(A) school health services; | ||
(B) counseling and guidance services; | ||
(C) a safe and healthy school environment; and | ||
(D) school employee wellness; [ |
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(5) if feasible, joint use agreements or strategies | ||
for collaboration between the school district and community | ||
organizations or agencies; and | ||
(6) strategies to increase parental awareness | ||
regarding: | ||
(A) risky behaviors and early warning signs of | ||
suicide risks and behavioral health concerns, including mental | ||
health disorders and substance use disorders; and | ||
(B) available community programs and services | ||
that address risky behaviors, suicide risks, and behavioral health | ||
concerns. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 161.325(d), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(d) A school district may develop practices and procedures | ||
concerning each area listed in Subsection (a-1), including mental | ||
health promotion and intervention, substance abuse prevention and | ||
intervention, and suicide prevention, that: | ||
(1) include a procedure for providing educational | ||
material to all parents and families in the district that contains | ||
information on identifying risk factors, accessing resources for | ||
treatment or support provided on and off campus, and accessing | ||
available student accommodations provided on campus; | ||
(2) include a procedure for providing notice of a | ||
recommendation for early mental health or substance abuse | ||
intervention regarding a student to a parent or guardian of the | ||
student within a reasonable amount of time after the identification | ||
of early warning signs as described by Subsection (b)(2); | ||
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a student identified as at risk of committing suicide to a parent or | ||
guardian of the student within a reasonable amount of time after the | ||
identification of early warning signs as described by Subsection | ||
(b)(2); | ||
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reporting mechanism and may designate at least one person to act as | ||
a liaison officer in the district for the purposes of identifying | ||
students in need of early mental health or substance abuse | ||
intervention or suicide prevention; and | ||
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for a parent or guardian to consider when their child is identified | ||
as possibly being in need of early mental health or substance abuse | ||
intervention or suicide prevention. | ||
SECTION 3. Subchapter O-1, Chapter 161, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 161.3255 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 161.3255. PARENT EDUCATION ON BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | ||
ISSUES. (a) In this section, "parent" includes a guardian or other | ||
person standing in parental relation. | ||
(b) At each campus in a school district in which at least 70 | ||
percent of the students in average daily attendance are | ||
educationally disadvantaged, homeless, as defined by 42 U.S.C. | ||
Section 11302, or in the conservatorship of the Department of | ||
Family and Protective Services, the district shall develop and | ||
implement a plan to increase parent and student knowledge and | ||
understanding of behavioral health disorders and treatment | ||
options. The plan must include strategies to educate and assist | ||
students and parents on: | ||
(1) identifying mental health disorders, substance | ||
use disorders, suicidal ideation, and issues related to trauma in | ||
children and youth; | ||
(2) accessing resources for treatment or support | ||
provided on and off campus; and | ||
(3) accessing available accommodations provided on | ||
campus for student success. | ||
(c) A school district may use internal or external resources | ||
to implement the strategies included in the plan required under | ||
Subsection (b), including: | ||
(1) developing and integrating behavioral health | ||
education as part of the health curriculum; | ||
(2) collaborating with behavioral health providers | ||
for treatment referrals and treatment services provided on campus; | ||
(3) establishing partnerships with community-based | ||
organizations to provide relevant education and support; | ||
(4) designating a behavioral-health parent-liaison at | ||
each campus of the district; and | ||
(5) exploring other promising practices in the areas | ||
of identifying and treating mental health disorders, substance use | ||
disorders, suicidal ideation, and issues related to trauma in | ||
children and youth. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |