Bill Text: TX HB671 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a veterans suicide prevention campaign.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB671 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB671-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 671 | ||
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| relating to a veterans suicide prevention campaign. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 434, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 434.0241 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 434.0241. VETERANS SUICIDE PREVENTION CAMPAIGN. (a) | ||
| The Texas Veterans Commission shall conduct a suicide prevention | ||
| campaign to provide veterans with information regarding suicide | ||
| prevention. | ||
| (b) In conducting the suicide prevention campaign, the | ||
| commission shall establish a dedicated Internet website to provide | ||
| veterans with information regarding suicide prevention. | ||
| (c) The commission shall collaborate with, and may contract | ||
| with, community-based, nonprofit, or private organizations to | ||
| conduct the suicide prevention campaign under this section. | ||
| (d) The commission may solicit and accept gifts and grants | ||
| for purposes of conducting the suicide prevention campaign under | ||
| this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than March 1, 2024, the Texas Veterans | ||
| Commission shall: | ||
| (1) establish the veterans suicide prevention | ||
| campaign as required under Section 434.0241, Government Code, as | ||
| added by this Act; and | ||
| (2) adopt any rules necessary to implement the | ||
| campaign. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 671 was passed by the House on May 4, | ||
| 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 671 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 18, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
