Bill Text: TX SB1699 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the designation of May as Postpartum Depression Awareness Month.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-30 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [SB1699 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1699-Comm_Sub.html
By: Huffman | S.B. No. 1699 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 13, 2015; March 23, 2015, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services; | ||
April 16, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, | ||
Nays 0; April 16, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the designation of May as Postpartum Depression | ||
Awareness Month. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 662, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 662.110 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 662.110. POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION AWARENESS MONTH. | ||
(a) May is Postpartum Depression Awareness Month to increase | ||
awareness of postpartum depression and to encourage: | ||
(1) the identification of signs, symptoms, and | ||
treatment options for postpartum depression; | ||
(2) the creation and update of lists of recommended | ||
materials for perinatal mental health available through the | ||
Department of State Health Services and the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission; | ||
(3) electronic circulation of and posting on state and | ||
local agency websites of recommended postpartum depression | ||
resources; | ||
(4) mothers-to-be and new mothers to be screened for | ||
postpartum depression using validated survey instruments; and | ||
(5) collaboration between governmental agencies, | ||
educational institutions, hospitals, private health care | ||
practices, health insurance providers, Medicaid providers, and | ||
mental health agencies to increase awareness of postpartum | ||
affective illness. | ||
(b) Postpartum Depression Awareness Month shall be | ||
regularly observed through appropriate programs and activities to | ||
increase awareness of postpartum depression. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
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