Bill Text: TX SB591 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a community outreach campaign to increase awareness of veterans benefits and services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB591 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB591-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 591 |
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relating to a community outreach campaign to increase awareness of | ||
veterans benefits and services. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 434, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 434.024 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 434.024. VETERANS COMMUNITY OUTREACH CAMPAIGN. | ||
(a) The Texas Veterans Commission shall conduct a community | ||
outreach campaign to provide information relating to and increase | ||
awareness of benefits and services available to veterans, | ||
including: | ||
(1) claims assistance services; | ||
(2) technology services, including the veterans | ||
website under Section 434.102; | ||
(3) health, financial, rehabilitation, and housing | ||
services; | ||
(4) employment and reemployment services; | ||
(5) legal services, including the veterans treatment | ||
court program under Chapter 124; | ||
(6) state and federal education benefits; | ||
(7) grants available to veterans; | ||
(8) entrepreneurial services under Section 434.022; | ||
and | ||
(9) mental health services. | ||
(b) The community outreach campaign must include outreach | ||
efforts at: | ||
(1) community centers; | ||
(2) places of worship; and | ||
(3) any other place in a community where veterans | ||
routinely gather, as determined by the commission. | ||
(c) The commission shall collaborate with, and may contract | ||
with, community-based, nonprofit, or private organizations to | ||
implement the community outreach campaign under this section. | ||
(d) The commission may solicit and accept gifts and grants | ||
to fund the community outreach campaign under this section. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than November 1, 2018, the Texas | ||
Veterans Commission shall establish the veterans community | ||
outreach campaign as required under Section 434.024, Government | ||
Code, as added by this Act, and shall adopt any rules necessary to | ||
implement the campaign. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 591 passed the Senate on | ||
April 27, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 591 passed the House on | ||
May 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, two | ||
present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |