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

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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-Introduced.html

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86R2908 EAS-D
By: Price H.B. No. 1070

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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, school district, 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, school district, 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.
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 September 30, 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 December 1, 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.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.