Bill Text: TX SB63 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to an instruction guide for family members and caregivers of veterans who have mental health disorders.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-23 - Effective immediately [SB63 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB63-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to an instruction guide for family members and caregivers of veterans who have mental health disorders.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-23 - Effective immediately [SB63 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB63-Comm_Sub.html
By: Zaffirini, et al. | S.B. No. 63 | |
(Raymond) | ||
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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. |