85R13002 SMT-D
 
  By: Price H.B. No. 2897
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the mental health first aid program training and
  reporting.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 1001.205, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 1001.205.  REPORTS. (a)  Not later than September 30
  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, the number of trainers
  who left the program for any reason during the preceding fiscal
  year, and the number of active trainers;
               (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 year categorized by
  local mental health authority region, school district, and category
  of personnel; and
               (3)  individuals who are not school district employees
  or school resource officers who completed a mental health first aid
  training program offered by the authority during the preceding
  fiscal year.
         (b)  Not later than December 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)  the number of authority employees and contractors
  trained as mental health first aid trainers during the preceding
  fiscal year, the number of trainers who left the program for any
  reason during the preceding fiscal year, and the number of active
  trainers;
               (2)  the number of 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 year categorized by local mental health
  authority region, school district, and category of personnel; [and]
               (3)  the number of individuals who are not school
  district employees or school resource officers who completed a
  mental health first aid training program provided by an authority
  during the preceding fiscal year; and
               (4)  a detailed accounting of expenditures of money
  appropriated for the purpose of implementing this subchapter.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter H, Chapter 1001, Health and Safety
  Code, is amended by adding Section 1001.207 to read as follows:
         Sec. 1001.207.  PROGRAM PROMOTION. (a) The commission shall
  make available on its official Internet website information about
  the Mental Health First Aid Training Program for the purpose of
  promoting public awareness of the program. An electronic link to an
  outside source of information is not sufficient. 
         (b)  The Texas Education Agency shall make available on its
  official Internet website information about the Mental Health First
  Aid Training Program for the purpose of promoting public awareness
  of the program. An electronic link to an outside source of
  information is not sufficient.
         SECTION 3.  (a) Section 1001.205(a), Health and Safety Code,
  as amended by this Act, applies only to a report due under that
  section after September 30, 2017. A report due under that section
  before that date is governed by the law in effect immediately before
  the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect
  for that purpose.
         (b)  Section 1001.205(b), Health and Safety Code, as amended
  by this Act, applies only to a report due under that section after
  December 1, 2017. A report due under that section before that date
  is governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective
  date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that
  purpose.
         SECTION 4.  Not later than December 1, 2017, the Health and
  Human Services Commission and the Texas Education Agency shall
  update their Internet websites to include the information required
  by Section 1001.207, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act.
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.