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.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)
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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
