H.B. No. 197
AN ACT
relating to requiring certain public institutions of higher
education to post information regarding mental health resources on
the institution's Internet website.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 51.9193 to read as follows:
Sec. 51.9193. REQUIRED POSTING OF MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES.
(a) In this section, "local mental health authority" has the
meaning assigned by Section 531.002, Health and Safety Code.
(b) This section applies only to a general academic teaching
institution, medical and dental unit, public junior college, public
state college, or public technical institute as those terms are
defined by Section 61.003.
(c) Each institution to which this section applies shall
create a web page on the institution's Internet website dedicated
solely to information regarding the mental health resources
available to students at the institution. The web page must include
the address of the nearest local mental health authority.
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date
of this Act, each public institution of higher education to which
Section 51.9193, Education Code, as added by this Act, applies
shall post on its Internet website the information required by that
section.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 197 was passed by the House on April
9, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 3, 2 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 197 on May 21, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 1, 1
present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 197 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 20, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor