H.B. No. 1600
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to certain mental health screenings under the Texas Health
  Steps program.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code,
  is amended by adding Section 32.0249 to read as follows:
         Sec. 32.0249.  MENTAL HEALTH SCREENINGS IN TEXAS HEALTH
  STEPS PROGRAM. The executive commissioner, in the rules governing
  the Texas Health Steps program, shall allow a provider to:
               (1)  conduct a mental health screening using one or
  more validated, standardized mental health screening tools during
  each annual medical exam of a recipient who is at least 12 years of
  age but younger than 19 years of age; and
               (2)  be reimbursed for conducting one mental health
  screening using one or more validated, standardized mental health
  screening tools during each annual medical exam of a recipient
  described by Subdivision (1).
         SECTION 2.  If before implementing any provision of this Act
  a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a
  federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision,
  the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or
  authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the
  waiver or authorization is granted.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
 
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1600 was passed by the House on April
  19, 2017, by the following vote:  Yeas 119, Nays 29, 1 present, not
  voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
  No. 1600 on May 26, 2017, by the following vote:  Yeas 128, Nays 14,
  2 present, not voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1600 was passed by the Senate, with
  amendments, on May 24, 2017, by the following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays
  2.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate   
  APPROVED: __________________
                  Date       
   
           __________________
                Governor