Bill Text: TX HB4429 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to mental health first aid training for veterans and immediate family members of veterans.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB4429 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB4429-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 4429

AN ACT
relating to mental health first aid training for veterans and
immediate family members of veterans.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 434.352(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) For the mental health program for veterans, the
commission shall:
(1) provide training to peer service coordinators and
peers in accordance with Section 434.353;
(2) provide technical assistance to peer service
coordinators and peers;
(3) identify, train, and communicate with
community-based licensed mental health professionals,
community-based organizations, and faith-based organizations;
[and]
(4) coordinate services for justice involved
veterans; and
(5) coordinate local delivery to veterans and
immediate family members of veterans of mental health first aid for
veterans training.
SECTION 2. 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, school district employees,
and school resource officers who 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; and
(4) veterans and immediate family members of veterans
who completed the veterans module of 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, school district employees,
and school resource officers who 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; and
(4) veterans and immediate family members of veterans
who completed the veterans module of a mental health first aid
training program provided by an authority during the preceding
fiscal year.
SECTION 3. Section 1001.222(a), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) The department shall develop a mental health
intervention program for veterans. The program must include:
(1) peer-to-peer counseling;
(2) access to licensed mental health professionals for
peer service coordinators and peers;
(3) training approved by the department for peer
service coordinators, licensed mental health professionals, and
peers;
(4) technical assistance for peer service
coordinators, licensed mental health professionals, and peers;
(5) identification, retention, and screening of
community-based licensed mental health professionals;
(6) suicide prevention training for peer service
coordinators and peers; [and]
(7) veteran jail diversion services, including
veterans treatment courts; and
(8) coordination of mental health first aid for
veterans training to veterans and immediate family members of
veterans.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 4429 was passed by the House on April
30, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 4429 on May 24, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 1,
2 present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 4429 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
1.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor