Bill Text: TX HB3980 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that the Statewide Behavioral Health Coordinating Council prepare a report regarding suicide rates in this state and state efforts to prevent suicides.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB3980 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3980-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that the Statewide Behavioral Health Coordinating Council prepare a report regarding suicide rates in this state and state efforts to prevent suicides.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB3980 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3980-Comm_Sub.html
By: Hunter (Senate Sponsor - Menéndez) | H.B. No. 3980 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 2, 2019; | ||
May 3, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Health & | ||
Human Services; May 19, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; | ||
May 19, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3980 | By: Perry |
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relating to a requirement that the Statewide Behavioral Health | ||
Coordinating Council prepare a report regarding suicide rates in | ||
this state and state efforts to prevent suicides. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS; PURPOSE. The | ||
legislature finds that: | ||
(1) suicide is a public health crisis that affects | ||
residents of all ages in every region of this state; and | ||
(2) policymakers need a better understanding of the | ||
issue to determine the appropriate state and regional efforts | ||
necessary to decrease suicide rates in this state across different | ||
ages, places, and groups and to address the patchwork of state laws, | ||
policies, programs, and efforts that are currently being used to | ||
address suicide. | ||
SECTION 2. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: | ||
(1) "Council" means the Statewide Behavioral Health | ||
Coordinating Council. | ||
(2) "Postvention" includes activities that promote | ||
healing necessary to reduce the risk of suicide by a person affected | ||
by the suicide of another. | ||
SECTION 3. SUMMARY REPORT. (a) The Health and Human | ||
Services Commission, in conjunction with the Department of State | ||
Health Services, shall prepare a summary report on the prevalence | ||
of suicide in this state and state policies and programs adopted | ||
across state systems and agencies to prevent suicides. The summary | ||
report must: | ||
(1) include available statewide and regional data on | ||
the prevalence rates of suicide-related events, including suicidal | ||
thoughts, suicide attempts, and deaths caused by suicide, that to | ||
the extent practicable, is presented in a form that: | ||
(A) is disaggregated by county and recognized | ||
categories of risk; and | ||
(B) is longitudinal to identify changes in | ||
suicide prevalence rates since 2000; | ||
(2) identify the highest categories of risk with | ||
correlational data; | ||
(3) list state statutes, agency rules, and policies | ||
related to suicide and suicide prevention, intervention, and | ||
postvention; and | ||
(4) describe state agency initiatives since 2000 to | ||
address suicide and include the following information relating to | ||
each initiative: | ||
(A) the administering state agency; | ||
(B) the funding sources, including whether the | ||
funding was provided by: | ||
(i) a federal block grant; | ||
(ii) a federal discretionary grant; or | ||
(iii) state appropriations; | ||
(C) the years of operation; and | ||
(D) whether the initiative is an example of a | ||
community-based effort to address suicide. | ||
(b) To the extent practicable, in preparing the summary | ||
report, the Health and Human Services Commission shall include in | ||
the statewide and regional data provided under Subsection (a)(1) of | ||
this section information that indicates the prevalence of | ||
suicide-related events, including the following characteristics: | ||
(1) the age of the individual; | ||
(2) the gender of the individual; and | ||
(3) whether at the time of the event the individual: | ||
(A) was active duty in a branch of the armed | ||
forces of the United States; or | ||
(B) was a military veteran. | ||
(c) Each state agency or institution of higher education | ||
that is a member of the council shall provide to the Health and | ||
Human Services Commission the information described by Subsection | ||
(a) of this section, to the extent that information pertains to the | ||
respective work of each agency or institution. | ||
(d) In preparing the summary report required by this Act, | ||
the Health and Human Services Commission and the Department of | ||
State Health Services shall consult, and may seek assistance from, | ||
a nonprofit group that: | ||
(1) coordinates a multisector network of state and | ||
community-based suicide prevention groups; and | ||
(2) has experience in the development, | ||
implementation, and monitoring of a statewide community-based | ||
suicide prevention plan. | ||
(e) Not later than May 1, 2020, the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission shall provide a copy of the summary report to | ||
the council, the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of | ||
the house of representatives, and each standing legislative | ||
committee with primary jurisdiction over health and mental health. | ||
SECTION 4. LEGISLATIVE REPORT. (a) Using the summary | ||
report on suicide prepared under Section 3 of this Act and with | ||
input from the stakeholder workgroup established under Subsection | ||
(b) of this section, the council shall prepare a legislative report | ||
on suicide in this state that identifies opportunities and makes | ||
recommendations, including those that require legislative action, | ||
for state agencies to: | ||
(1) improve statewide and regional data collection on | ||
suicide-related events; | ||
(2) use data to guide and inform decisions and policy | ||
development relating to suicide prevention; and | ||
(3) decrease suicide in this state while targeting the | ||
highest categories of risk. | ||
(b) The council shall establish a stakeholder workgroup to | ||
assist member agencies in preparing the report that includes: | ||
(1) a representative of a nonprofit group that: | ||
(A) coordinates a multisector network of state | ||
and community-based suicide prevention groups; and | ||
(B) assists with the development, | ||
implementation, and monitoring of a statewide community-based | ||
suicide prevention plan; | ||
(2) a representative of a local mental health | ||
authority with experience in suicide prevention and postvention | ||
activities; | ||
(3) representatives of groups with experience in | ||
suicide prevention and postvention activities: | ||
(A) in a rural community, a suburban community, | ||
and an urban community; | ||
(B) with military and veteran service members and | ||
their families; and | ||
(C) in adult and juvenile justice settings; | ||
(4) persons involved in suicide prevention and | ||
postvention activities who have lived through the experience of | ||
surviving a suicide attempt or have lost a family member to suicide; | ||
and | ||
(5) a representative of any other group identified by | ||
the council. | ||
(c) The chief administrator of each state agency | ||
represented on the council is entitled to a copy of the legislative | ||
report prepared under this section. | ||
(d) Not later than November 1, 2020, the council shall | ||
submit a copy of the legislative report to the governor, the | ||
lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, | ||
and each standing legislative committee with primary jurisdiction | ||
over health and mental health. | ||
SECTION 5. EXPIRATION. This Act expires December 1, 2020. | ||
SECTION 6. EFFECTIVE DATE. 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. | ||
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