Bill Text: TX SB76 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a strategic plan to address postpartum depression.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-18 - Filed [SB76 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB76-Introduced.html
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| By: Rodríguez | S.B. No. 76 | |
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| relating to a strategic plan to address postpartum depression. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 32.046 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 32.046. POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION STRATEGIC PLAN. (a) In | ||
| this section, "postpartum depression" means a disorder with | ||
| postpartum onset that is categorized as a mood disorder by the | ||
| American Psychiatric Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical | ||
| Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5), or a subsequent | ||
| edition adopted by rule by the executive commissioner. | ||
| (b) The executive commissioner shall develop and the | ||
| department shall implement a five-year strategic plan to improve | ||
| access to postpartum depression screening, referral, treatment, | ||
| and support services. Not later than September 1 of the last fiscal | ||
| year in each five-year period, the executive commissioner shall | ||
| develop a new strategic plan for the next five fiscal years | ||
| beginning with the following fiscal year. | ||
| (c) The strategic plan required under this section must | ||
| provide strategies to: | ||
| (1) increase awareness among state-administered | ||
| program providers who may serve women who are at risk of or are | ||
| experiencing postpartum depression about the prevalence and | ||
| effects of postpartum depression on outcomes for women and | ||
| children; | ||
| (2) establish a referral network of community-based | ||
| mental health providers and support services addressing postpartum | ||
| depression; | ||
| (3) increase women's access to formal and informal | ||
| peer support services, including access to certified peer | ||
| specialists who have received additional training related to | ||
| postpartum depression; | ||
| (4) raise public awareness of and reduce the stigma | ||
| related to postpartum depression; and | ||
| (5) leverage sources of funding to support existing | ||
| community-based postpartum depression screening, referral, | ||
| treatment, and support services. | ||
| (d) The executive commissioner shall coordinate with the | ||
| statewide health coordinating council, the office of mental health | ||
| coordination, and the statewide behavioral health coordinating | ||
| council in developing the strategic plan under this section. | ||
| (e) The executive commissioner shall update annually the | ||
| strategic plan developed under this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than September 1, 2018, the executive | ||
| commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
| develop the initial strategic plan required by Section 32.046, | ||
| Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect December 1, 2017. | ||
