Bill Text: TX HB381 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a pilot program awarding grants for the provision of personalized treatment protocols for veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB381 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB381-Introduced.html
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| By: Guillen | H.B. No. 381 | |
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| relating to a pilot program awarding grants for the provision of | ||
| personalized treatment protocols for veterans diagnosed with | ||
| post-traumatic stress disorder. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 49 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 49. VETERANS PILOT PROGRAM TO PROVIDE POST-TRAUMATIC | ||
| STRESS DISORDER TREATMENT | ||
| Sec. 49.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Pilot program" means the pilot program | ||
| established under this chapter. | ||
| (2) "Veteran" means an individual who has served in: | ||
| (A) an active or reserve component of the army, | ||
| navy, air force, coast guard, or marine corps of the United States; | ||
| or | ||
| (B) the Texas National Guard, as defined by | ||
| Section 431.001, Government Code. | ||
| Sec. 49.002. ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF PILOT PROGRAM. | ||
| (a) The commission, using available resources and in cooperation | ||
| with a nonprofit veterans organization, shall establish and operate | ||
| a pilot program to award grants for the provision of personalized | ||
| treatment protocols to at least 250 veterans diagnosed with | ||
| post-traumatic stress disorder, including treatment-resistant | ||
| post-traumatic stress disorder. | ||
| (b) A personalized treatment protocol provided to a veteran | ||
| under the pilot program must be: | ||
| (1) administered at the veteran's home; and | ||
| (2) designed to reduce neuroinflammation and | ||
| replenish deficient or insufficient brain chemistry to an optimal | ||
| level. | ||
| (c) The commission may award a grant under the pilot program | ||
| only in accordance with a contract between the commission and a | ||
| grant recipient. The contract must include provisions under which | ||
| the commission is granted sufficient control to ensure the public | ||
| purpose of providing treatment to veterans is accomplished and the | ||
| state receives the return benefit. | ||
| (d) The commission may accept gifts, grants, and donations | ||
| to operate the pilot program. | ||
| Sec. 49.003. RULES. The executive commissioner shall adopt | ||
| rules to implement this chapter. | ||
| Sec. 49.004. REPORT. Not later than October 1, 2030, the | ||
| commission shall prepare and submit to the governor, the lieutenant | ||
| governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the | ||
| appropriate standing committees of the legislature a report that | ||
| includes: | ||
| (1) information on the number of veterans who were | ||
| provided a personalized treatment protocol under the pilot program; | ||
| and | ||
| (2) an evaluation of the pilot program's | ||
| effectiveness. | ||
| Sec. 49.005. EXPIRATION. The pilot program concludes and | ||
| this chapter expires September 1, 2031. | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act: | ||
| (1) the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
| Services Commission shall adopt the rules necessary to implement | ||
| Chapter 49, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act; and | ||
| (2) the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
| establish and begin operating the pilot program under Chapter 49, | ||
| Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
