By: Hernandez H.B. No. 2583
73R1803 KLL-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to health care services and education for adolescents,
1-3 including the establishment of a state grant program.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subtitle H, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Chapter 164 to read as follows:
1-7 CHAPTER 164. GRANT PROGRAM FOR FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES
1-8 Sec. 164.001. GRANT PROGRAM TO COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS FOR
1-9 FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES. The department shall establish and
1-10 administer a state grant program that provides grants to nonprofit
1-11 community organizations to enhance access to family planning
1-12 services by adolescents.
1-13 Sec. 164.002. PURPOSES OF GRANTS. The state grant program
1-14 may provide funding to nonprofit community organizations for the
1-15 purposes of:
1-16 (1) developing and implementing comprehensive
1-17 sexuality and self-responsibility programs for adolescents that
1-18 include materials related to the postponement of sexual activity,
1-19 the importance of family and personal values, the development of
1-20 decision-making skills, the promotion of self-esteem, and the
1-21 development of positive interpersonal relationships;
1-22 (2) developing and disseminating public service
1-23 announcements concerning family planning issues that are targeted
1-24 to adolescents;
2-1 (3) expanding the operating hours of a family planning
2-2 clinic;
2-3 (4) developing programs to provide information to
2-4 adolescents concerning sexually transmitted diseases and protection
2-5 from sexually transmitted diseases, including abstinence from
2-6 sexual activity;
2-7 (5) providing outreach programs for adolescents,
2-8 including telephone hot lines and telephone information lines; and
2-9 (6) providing pregnancy prevention programs, including
2-10 information on birth control and abstinence from sexual activity.
2-11 Sec. 164.003. APPLICATION PROCEDURES AND ELIGIBILITY
2-12 GUIDELINES. The department shall establish application procedures
2-13 and eligibility guidelines for the state grants provided under this
2-14 chapter.
2-15 Sec. 164.004. APPLICANT INFORMATION. An applicant for a
2-16 state grant under this chapter shall submit to the department for
2-17 approval:
2-18 (1) a description of the objectives established by the
2-19 applicant for the conduct of the program;
2-20 (2) a description of the methods the applicant will
2-21 use to evaluate the activities conducted under the program to
2-22 determine if the objectives are met; and
2-23 (3) any other information requested by the department.
2-24 Sec. 164.005. AWARDING OF GRANTS. In awarding state grants
2-25 under this chapter, the department shall endeavor to distribute
2-26 grants in a manner that prevents unnecessary duplication of
2-27 services within a community.
3-1 Sec. 164.006. RECORDS AND REPORTS. (a) The department
3-2 shall require each community organization receiving a state grant
3-3 under this chapter to maintain records and information specified by
3-4 the department.
3-5 (b) The department shall review periodically the financial
3-6 records of a program funded with a grant under this chapter.
3-7 (c) As a condition of accepting a grant under this chapter,
3-8 a community organization must allow the department to periodically
3-9 review the financial records of that organization.
3-10 Sec. 164.007. RULES. The board shall adopt rules to
3-11 administer this chapter.
3-12 SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
3-13 amended by adding Section 11.2082 to read as follows:
3-14 Sec. 11.2082. MEDIA CAMPAIGN ON WELLNESS AND HEALTH.
3-15 (a) The Central Education Agency, in cooperation with the Texas
3-16 Department of Health, shall develop a media campaign that
3-17 emphasizes wellness and health for adolescents.
3-18 (b) The media campaign may use printed materials for
3-19 distribution or publication and may use communications to be
3-20 broadcast by radio or television.
3-21 (c) The media campaign may include information on nutrition,
3-22 pregnancy prevention through birth control or abstinence from
3-23 sexual activity, the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases,
3-24 substance abuse, and any other health issues appropriate for
3-25 adolescents.
3-26 SECTION 3. Section 21.035(b), Education Code, is amended to
3-27 read as follows:
4-1 (b) Any child not excepted from compulsory school attendance
4-2 may be excused, as provided by this section, for temporary absence
4-3 resulting from personal sickness, health care and accompanying
4-4 counseling and education, sickness or death in the family,
4-5 quarantine, weather or road conditions making travel dangerous, or
4-6 any other unusual cause acceptable to the teacher, principal, or
4-7 superintendent of the school in which the child is enrolled.
4-8 SECTION 4. The change in law made by Section 3 of this Act
4-9 applies beginning with the 1993-1994 school year.
4-10 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
4-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
4-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
4-16 passage, and it is so enacted.