Bill Text: TX HB1023 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to recommendations by the Health and Human Services Commission or a designated health and human services agency regarding mental health workforce shortages.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB1023 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1023-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1023 | ||
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| relating to recommendations by the Health and Human Services | ||
| Commission or a designated health and human services agency | ||
| regarding mental health workforce shortages. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. RECOMMENDATIONS ON MENTAL HEALTH WORKFORCE | ||
| SHORTAGE. (a) The Health and Human Services Commission, or a | ||
| health and human services agency designated by the commission, | ||
| shall use existing information and data available through the | ||
| commission, the Department of State Health Services, the statewide | ||
| health coordinating council, and nongovernmental entities with | ||
| expertise in mental health workforce issues to make recommendations | ||
| regarding mental health workforce shortages in this state. | ||
| (b) Not later than September 1, 2014, the Health and Human | ||
| Services Commission, or the health and human services agency | ||
| designated by the commission, shall submit a report to the | ||
| governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of | ||
| representatives, and the appropriate standing committees of the | ||
| legislature that includes: | ||
| (1) specific recommendations to alleviate mental | ||
| health workforce shortages in this state; | ||
| (2) an assessment of the feasibility of implementing | ||
| each recommendation; | ||
| (3) the estimated costs and benefits of each | ||
| recommendation; and | ||
| (4) the specific legislative action, if any, needed to | ||
| implement each recommendation. | ||
| SECTION 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. 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, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1023 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 25, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 133, Nays 3, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 1023 on May 24, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 2, | ||
| 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1023 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
