Bill Text: TX SB581 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a veterans suicide prevention campaign.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Co-author authorized [SB581 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB581-Introduced.html
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By: Eckhardt | S.B. No. 581 |
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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 | ||
information about safely storing firearms. | ||
(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. |