By: Schwertner, Garcia S.B. No. 133
      Zaffirini
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to mental health first aid training for school district
  employees and school resource officers.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 1001.201, Health and Safety Code, as
  added by Chapter 1306 (H.B. 3793), Acts of the 83rd Legislature,
  Regular Session, 2013, is amended by adding Subdivisions (4) and
  (5) to read as follows:
               (4)  "School district employee" means a person employed
  by a school district who regularly interacts with students through
  the course of the person's duties, including an educator, a
  secretary, a school bus driver, or a cafeteria worker.
               (5)  "School resource officer" has the meaning assigned
  by Section 1701.601, Occupations Code.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter H, Chapter 1001, Health and Safety
  Code, as added by Chapter 1306 (H.B. 3793), Acts of the 83rd
  Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is amended by adding Section
  1001.2015 to read as follows:
         Sec. 1001.2015.  LIMITATION ON GRANTS. For each state
  fiscal year, the department may give to a local mental health
  authority in the form of grants under Sections 1001.202 and
  1001.203 an amount that may not exceed the lesser of:
               (1)  three percent of the total amount appropriated to
  the department for making grants under those sections; or
               (2)  $70,000.
         SECTION 3.  Section 1001.202(b), Health and Safety Code, as
  added by Chapter 1306 (H.B. 3793), Acts of the 83rd Legislature,
  Regular Session, 2013, is amended to read as follows:
         (b)  The [Except as provided by Subsection (c), the]
  department shall make each grant to a local mental health authority
  under this section in an amount equal to $1,000 times the number of
  employees or contractors of the authority whose training as mental
  health first aid trainers will be paid by the grant.
         SECTION 4.  Sections 1001.203(a) and (c), Health and Safety
  Code, as added by Chapter 1306 (H.B. 3793), Acts of the 83rd
  Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  To the extent funds are appropriated to the department
  for that purpose, the department shall make grants to local mental
  health authorities to provide an approved mental health first aid
  training program, administered by mental health first aid trainers,
  at no cost to school district employees and school resource
  officers [educators].
         (c)  The [Subject to the limit provided by Subsection (b),
  out of the funds appropriated to the department for making grants
  under this section, the] department shall grant $100 to a local
  mental health authority for each school district employee or school
  resource officer [educator] who successfully completes a mental
  health first aid training program provided by the authority under
  this section.
         SECTION 5.  Subchapter H, Chapter 1001, Health and Safety
  Code, as added by Chapter 1306 (H.B. 3793), Acts of the 83rd
  Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is amended by adding Section
  1001.2031 to read as follows:
         Sec. 1001.2031.  SUPPLEMENTAL GRANTS FOR TRAINING CERTAIN
  EDUCATORS IN MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID. For each state fiscal year,
  the department may allocate any unobligated money appropriated for
  making grants under Sections 1001.202 and 1001.203 for supplemental
  grants.  The department may give a supplemental grant to a local
  mental health authority that submits to the department a revised
  plan as provided under Section 1001.204 that demonstrates how the
  additional grant money would be used if made available to the
  authority.
         SECTION 6.  Section 1001.204(a), Health and Safety Code, as
  added by Chapter 1306 (H.B. 3793), Acts of the 83rd Legislature,
  Regular Session, 2013, is amended to read as follows:
         (a)  Not later than July [October] 1 of each state fiscal
  year for which a local mental health authority will seek a grant
  from the department under Section 1001.203, the authority shall
  submit to the department a plan demonstrating the manner in which
  grants made to the authority under that section will be used:
               (1)  to train individuals in mental health first aid
  throughout the authority's local service area to maximize the
  number of children who have direct contact with an individual who
  has successfully completed a mental health first aid training
  program provided by the authority;
               (2)  to meet the greatest needs of the authority's local
  service area, as identified by the authority; and
               (3)  to complement existing resources and not duplicate
  established mental health first aid training efforts.
         SECTION 7.  Section 1001.205, Health and Safety Code, as
  added by Chapter 1306 (H.B. 3793), Acts of the 83rd Legislature,
  Regular Session, 2013, is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 1001.205.  REPORTS. (a)  Not later than September 30
  [July 1] of each year, a local mental health authority shall provide
  to the department the number of:
               (1)  employees and contractors of the authority who
  were trained as mental health first aid trainers under Section
  1001.202 during the preceding fiscal year;
               (2)  educators, school district employees other than
  educators, and school resource officers who completed a mental
  health first aid training program offered by the authority under
  Section 1001.203 during the preceding fiscal [calendar] year; and
               (3)  individuals who are not school district employees
  or school resource officers [educators] who completed a mental
  health first aid training program offered by the authority during
  the preceding fiscal [calendar] year.
         (b)  Not later than December 1 [August 1] of each year, the
  department shall compile the information submitted by local mental
  health authorities as required by Subsection (a) and submit a
  report to the legislature containing the number of:
               (1)  authority employees and contractors trained as
  mental health first aid trainers during the preceding fiscal year;
               (2)  educators, school district employees other than
  educators, and school resource officers who completed a mental
  health first aid training program provided by an authority during
  the preceding fiscal [calendar] year; and
               (3)  individuals who are not school district employees
  or school resource officers [educators] who completed a mental
  health first aid training program provided by an authority during
  the preceding fiscal [calendar] year.
         SECTION 8.  The following are repealed:
               (1)  Section 1001.202(c), Health and Safety Code, as
  added by Chapter 1306 (H.B. 3793), Acts of the 83rd Legislature,
  Regular Session, 2013; and
               (2)  Section 1001.203(b), Health and Safety Code, as
  added by Chapter 1306 (H.B. 3793), Acts of the 83rd Legislature,
  Regular Session, 2013.
         SECTION 9.  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 September 1, 2015.