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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the establishment of a grant program to enhance |
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community-based suicide prevention efforts. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is |
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amended by adding Section 531.09991 to read as follows: |
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Sec. 531.09991. GRANT PROGRAM FOR COMMUNITY-BASED SUICIDE |
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PREVENTION EFFORTS. (a) To the extent money is available to the |
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commission for that purpose, the commission shall establish a |
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program to provide grants to quasi-governmental or nonprofit |
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entities for the purpose of establishing and enhancing |
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community-based suicide prevention efforts. |
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(b) Grant money awarded under this section may be used only |
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to: |
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(1) support the implementation, administration, and |
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coordination of the 2018 Texas State Plan for Suicide Prevention |
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adopted by the Texas Suicide Prevention Council; |
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(2) support the operations of the quasi-governmental |
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and nonprofit entities receiving grant money to expand local |
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community-based suicide prevention efforts; |
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(3) support suicide prevention efforts in certain |
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communities of practice, including veterans, primary and secondary |
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education students, higher education students, persons who reside |
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in rural areas, and persons working in health care; |
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(4) facilitate statewide partnerships and |
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collaborations; |
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(5) expand the capacities of community-based suicide |
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prevention programs to collect and analyze information to inform |
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suicide prevention strategies; |
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(6) foster and promote emerging and promising best |
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practices in suicide prevention; |
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(7) offer outreach and communications structures |
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supporting the 2018 Texas State Plan for Suicide Prevention; or |
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(8) subcontract with another quasi-governmental or |
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nonprofit entity acceptable to the commission to accomplish the |
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purposes described by Subdivisions (1)-(7). |
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SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date |
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of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human |
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Services Commission shall adopt rules necessary to implement |
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Section 531.09991, Government Code, as added by this Act. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |