Bill Text: TX HB4237 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to mental health first aid training for university employees.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-05 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB4237 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB4237-Comm_Sub.html
85R9965 GCB-D | ||
By: Moody, Coleman, Price, Lozano, Turner | H.B. No. 4237 |
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relating to mental health first aid training for university | ||
employees. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1001.201, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subdivision (6) to read as follows: | ||
(6) "University employee" means a person employed by a | ||
public or private institution of higher education who regularly | ||
interacts with students enrolled at the university through the | ||
course of the person's duties. | ||
SECTION 2. The heading to Section 1001.203, Health and | ||
Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1001.203. GRANTS FOR TRAINING CERTAIN UNIVERSITY | ||
EMPLOYEES, SCHOOL DISTRICT EMPLOYEES, AND SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS | ||
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SECTION 3. Sections 1001.203(a), (c), and (e), Health and | ||
Safety Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) To the extent funds are appropriated to the department | ||
for that purpose, the department shall make grants to local mental | ||
health authorities to provide an approved mental health first aid | ||
training program, administered by mental health first aid trainers, | ||
at no cost to university employees, school district employees, and | ||
school resource officers. | ||
(c) The department shall grant $100 to a local mental health | ||
authority for each university employee, school district employee, | ||
or school resource officer who successfully completes a mental | ||
health first aid training program provided by the authority under | ||
this section. | ||
(e) A local mental health authority may contract with a | ||
regional education service center to provide a mental health first | ||
aid training program to university employees, school district | ||
employees, and school resource officers [ |
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section. | ||
SECTION 4. The heading to Section 1001.2031, Health and | ||
Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1001.2031. SUPPLEMENTAL GRANTS FOR TRAINING CERTAIN | ||
UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEES, SCHOOL DISTRICT EMPLOYEES, AND SCHOOL | ||
RESOURCE OFFICERS [ |
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SECTION 5. Section 1001.205, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1001.205. REPORTS. (a) Not later than September 30 | ||
of each year, a local mental health authority shall provide to the | ||
department the number of: | ||
(1) employees and contractors of the authority who | ||
were trained as mental health first aid trainers under Section | ||
1001.202 during the preceding fiscal year; | ||
(2) university employees [ |
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employees [ |
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completed a mental health first aid training program offered by the | ||
authority under Section 1001.203 during the preceding fiscal year; | ||
and | ||
(3) individuals who are not university employees, | ||
school district employees, or school resource officers who | ||
completed a mental health first aid training program offered by the | ||
authority during the preceding fiscal year. | ||
(b) Not later than December 1 of each year, the department | ||
shall compile the information submitted by local mental health | ||
authorities as required by Subsection (a) and submit a report to the | ||
legislature containing the number of: | ||
(1) authority employees and contractors trained as | ||
mental health first aid trainers during the preceding fiscal year; | ||
(2) university employees [ |
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employees [ |
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completed a mental health first aid training program provided by an | ||
authority during the preceding fiscal year; and | ||
(3) individuals who are not university employees, | ||
school district employees, or school resource officers who | ||
completed a mental health first aid training program provided by an | ||
authority during the preceding fiscal year. | ||
SECTION 6. 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, 2017. |