Bill Text: TX SB2070 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the duties of the statewide behavioral health coordinating council regarding suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention policies and procedures.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-01 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB2070 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB2070-Introduced.html
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By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 2070 |
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relating to the duties of the statewide behavioral health | ||
coordinating council regarding suicide prevention, intervention, | ||
and postvention policies and procedures. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 531.471, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.471. DEFINITIONS [ |
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subchapter: | ||
(1) "Council [ |
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behavioral health coordinating council. | ||
(2) "Postvention" includes activities that promote | ||
healing necessary to reduce the risk of suicide by a person affected | ||
by the suicide of another. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 531.476, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.476. POWERS AND DUTIES. 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) shall examine the policies and procedures | ||
regarding suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention of | ||
each entity represented on the council to determine whether the | ||
policies and procedures are: | ||
(A) in accordance with best practices for suicide | ||
prevention, intervention, and postvention; and | ||
(B) in alignment with the policies and procedures | ||
of the other entities on the council; | ||
(5) shall establish model policies and procedures | ||
regarding suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention, | ||
ensuring that those policies and procedures: | ||
(A) include information about identifying | ||
persons at high risk for suicide; | ||
(B) support best practices for suicide | ||
prevention, intervention, and postvention; | ||
(C) align with the policies and procedures of | ||
entities represented on the council; and | ||
(D) are research-based; | ||
(6) shall require each entity represented on the | ||
council that provides suicide prevention, intervention, and | ||
postvention services to adopt the model policies and procedures | ||
established under Subdivision (5); | ||
(7) shall provide the model policies and procedures | ||
established under Subdivision (5) to each state agency that | ||
provides suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention | ||
services; | ||
(8) may create subcommittees to carry out the | ||
council's duties under this subchapter; and | ||
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collaboration for the effective expenditure of available federal | ||
and state funds for behavioral and mental health services in this | ||
state. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |