Bill Text: TX HB4074 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the collection and use of suicide data by the statewide behavioral health coordinating council.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-18 - Effective immediately [HB4074 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4074-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 4074 |
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relating to the collection and use of suicide data by the statewide | ||
behavioral health coordinating council. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 531.476, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.476. POWERS AND DUTIES. (a) The council: | ||
(1) shall develop and monitor the implementation of a | ||
five-year statewide behavioral health strategic plan; | ||
(2) shall develop a biennial coordinated statewide | ||
behavioral health expenditure proposal; | ||
(3) shall annually publish an updated inventory of | ||
behavioral health programs and services that are funded by the | ||
state that includes a description of how those programs and | ||
services further the purpose of the statewide behavioral health | ||
strategic plan; | ||
(4) may create subcommittees to carry out the | ||
council's duties under this subchapter; and | ||
(5) may facilitate opportunities to increase | ||
collaboration for the effective expenditure of available federal | ||
and state funds for behavioral and mental health services in this | ||
state. | ||
(b) The council shall include statewide suicide prevention | ||
efforts in its five-year statewide behavioral health strategic plan | ||
under Subsection (a). | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter M-1, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 531.477 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.477. SUICIDE PREVENTION SUBCOMMITTEE; SUICIDE | ||
DATA REPORTS. (a) The council shall create a suicide prevention | ||
subcommittee to focus on statewide suicide prevention efforts using | ||
information collected by the council from available sources of | ||
suicide data reports. The suicide prevention subcommittee shall | ||
establish guidelines for the frequent use of those reports in | ||
carrying out the council's purpose under this subchapter. | ||
(b) The subcommittee created under this section shall | ||
establish a method for identifying how suicide data reports are | ||
used to make policy. | ||
(c) Public or private entities that collect information | ||
regarding suicide and suicide prevention may provide suicide data | ||
reports to commission staff designated by the executive | ||
commissioner to receive those reports. | ||
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, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 4074 was passed by the House on May | ||
11, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 132, Nays 11, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 4074 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
24, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 1. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |