Bill Text: TX SB63 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to an instruction guide for family members and caregivers of veterans who have mental health disorders.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-23 - Effective immediately [SB63 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB63-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 63 | ||
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| relating to an instruction guide for family members and caregivers | ||
| of veterans who have mental health disorders. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 531.0932 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.0932. INSTRUCTION GUIDE FOR FAMILY MEMBERS AND | ||
| CAREGIVERS OF VETERANS WHO HAVE MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS. (a) The | ||
| commission and the Texas Veterans Commission jointly shall produce | ||
| and make publicly available an instruction guide for family members | ||
| and caregivers of veterans who have mental health disorders. | ||
| (b) The instruction guide produced under this section must | ||
| include: | ||
| (1) general education about different mental health | ||
| disorders, including instruction intended to improve understanding | ||
| about the experience of persons suffering from those mental health | ||
| disorders; | ||
| (2) techniques for handling crisis situations and | ||
| administering mental health first aid to persons suffering from | ||
| mental health disorders; | ||
| (3) techniques for coping with the stress of living | ||
| with a person with a mental health disorder; and | ||
| (4) information about related services available for | ||
| family members and caregivers of veterans who have mental health | ||
| disorders that are provided by the commission, the Texas Veterans | ||
| Commission, other state agencies, community organizations, and | ||
| mental health services providers. | ||
| (c) The commission and the Texas Veterans Commission each | ||
| shall publish the guide produced under this section on the | ||
| respective agency's Internet website. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 63 passed the Senate on | ||
| March 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 63 passed the House on | ||
| May 9, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 125, Nays 17, | ||
| two present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
