Bill Text: TX HB1070 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the mental health first aid training program reporting requirements.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-6)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 1, 2019 [HB1070 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB1070-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 1070

AN ACT
relating to the mental health first aid training program reporting
requirements.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1001.205, Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 1001.205. REPORTS. (a) Not later than September 30 of
each year, a local mental health authority shall provide to the
department the number of:
(1) employees and contractors of the authority who
were trained as mental health first aid trainers under Section
1001.202 during the preceding fiscal year, the number of trainers
who left the program for any reason during the preceding fiscal
year, and the number of active trainers;
(2) university employees, school district employees,
and school resource officers who completed a mental health first
aid training program offered by the authority under Section
1001.203 during the preceding fiscal year categorized by local
mental health authority region, university or school district, as
applicable, and category of personnel; and
(3) individuals who are not university employees,
school district employees, or school resource officers who
completed a mental health first aid training program offered by the
authority during the preceding fiscal year.
(b) Not later than December 1 of each year, the department
shall compile the information submitted by local mental health
authorities as required by Subsection (a) and submit a report to the
legislature containing [the number of]:
(1) the number of authority employees and contractors
trained as mental health first aid trainers during the preceding
fiscal year, the number of trainers who left the program for any
reason during the preceding fiscal year, and the number of active
trainers;
(2) the number of university employees, school
district employees, and school resource officers who completed a
mental health first aid training program provided by an authority
during the preceding fiscal year categorized by local mental health
authority region, university or school district, as applicable, and
category of personnel; [and]
(3) the number of individuals who are not university
employees, school district employees, or school resource officers
who completed a mental health first aid training program provided
by an authority during the preceding fiscal year; and
(4) a detailed accounting of expenditures of money
appropriated for the purpose of implementing this subchapter.
(c) The department shall develop and provide to local mental
health authorities a form to be used for the reporting of
information required under Subsection (a), including the reporting
of each category of personnel described by that subsection.
SECTION 2. (a) Section 1001.205(a), Health and Safety
Code, as amended by this Act, applies only to a report due under
that subsection after December 31, 2019. A report due under that
subsection before that date is governed by the law in effect
immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
(b) Section 1001.205(b), Health and Safety Code, as amended
by this Act, applies only to a report due under that subsection
after March 1, 2020. A report due under that subsection before that
date is governed by the law in effect immediately before the
effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for
that purpose.
(c) Not later than May 1, 2020, the Health and Human
Services Commission shall develop and make available the form
required under Section 1001.205(c), Health and Safety Code, as
added by this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect December 1, 2019.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1070 was passed by the House on April
16, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 8, 1 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 1070 on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 9,
2 present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1070 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 16, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor