Bill Text: TX SB1861 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a comprehensive plan for increasing and improving the workforce in this state that serves persons with mental health and substance use issues.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-23 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1861 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1861-Introduced.html
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| By: Lucio | S.B. No. 1861 | |
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| relating to a comprehensive plan for increasing and improving the | ||
| workforce in this state that serves persons with mental health and | ||
| substance use issues. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 531.02251 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.02251. COMPREHENSIVE WORKFORCE PLAN FOR MENTAL | ||
| HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE. (a) The commission shall develop and | ||
| implement a comprehensive plan to increase and improve the | ||
| workforce in this state to serve persons with mental health and | ||
| substance use issues. In developing the plan, the commission shall | ||
| analyze and consider available studies, reports, and | ||
| recommendations regarding that segment of the workforce in this | ||
| state or elsewhere. | ||
| (b) The plan must include: | ||
| (1) a strategy and timeline for implementing the plan, | ||
| including short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals; | ||
| (2) a system for monitoring the implementation of the | ||
| plan; and | ||
| (3) a method for evaluating the outcomes of the plan. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than September 1, 2018, the Health and | ||
| Human Services Commission shall develop and begin implementing the | ||
| plan required under Section 531.02251, Government Code, as added by | ||
| this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
