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1	1	84R8787 GCB-F
2	2	By: Coleman H.B. No. 2220
3	3	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2220:
4	4	By: Aycock C.S.H.B. No. 2220
5	5
6	6
7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to mental health first aid training for school district
10	10	employees and school resource officers.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Section 1001.201, Health and Safety Code, as
13	13	added by Chapter 1306 (H.B. 3793), Acts of the 83rd Legislature,
14	14	Regular Session, 2013, is amended by adding Subdivisions (4) and
15	15	(5) to read as follows:
16	16	(4) "School district employee" means a person employed
17	17	by a school district who regularly interacts with students through
18	18	the course of the person's duties, including an educator, a
19	19	secretary, a school bus driver, or a cafeteria worker.
20	20	(5) "School resource officer" has the meaning assigned
21	21	by Section 1701.601, Occupations Code.
22	22	SECTION 2. Subchapter H, Chapter 1001, Health and Safety
23	23	Code, as added by Chapter 1306 (H.B. 3793), Acts of the 83rd
24	24	Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is amended by adding Section
25	25	1001.2015 to read as follows:
26	26	Sec. 1001.2015. LIMITATION ON GRANTS. For each state
27	27	fiscal year, the department may give to a local mental health
28	28	authority in the form of grants under Sections 1001.202 and
29	29	1001.203 an amount that may not exceed the lesser of:
30	30	(1) three percent of the total amount appropriated to
31	31	the department for making grants under those sections; or
32	32	(2) $70,000.
33	33	SECTION 3. Section 1001.202(b), Health and Safety Code, as
34	34	added by Chapter 1306 (H.B. 3793), Acts of the 83rd Legislature,
35	35	Regular Session, 2013, is amended to read as follows:
36	36	(b) The [Except as provided by Subsection (c), the]
37	37	department shall make each grant to a local mental health authority
38	38	under this section in an amount equal to $1,000 times the number of
39	39	employees or contractors of the authority whose training as mental
40	40	health first aid trainers will be paid by the grant.
41	41	SECTION 4. Sections 1001.203(a) and (c), Health and Safety
42	42	Code, as added by Chapter 1306 (H.B. 3793), Acts of the 83rd
43	43	Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, are amended to read as follows:
44	44	(a) To the extent funds are appropriated to the department
45	45	for that purpose, the department shall make grants to local mental
46	46	health authorities to provide an approved mental health first aid
47	47	training program, administered by mental health first aid trainers,
48	48	at no cost to school district employees and school resource
49	49	officers [educators].
50	50	(c) The [Subject to the limit provided by Subsection (b),
51	51	out of the funds appropriated to the department for making grants
52	52	under this section, the] department shall grant $100 to a local
53	53	mental health authority for each school district employee or school
54	54	resource officer [educator] who successfully completes a mental
55	55	health first aid training program provided by the authority under
56	56	this section.
57	57	SECTION 5. Subchapter H, Chapter 1001, Health and Safety
58	58	Code, as added by Chapter 1306 (H.B. 3793), Acts of the 83rd
59	59	Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is amended by adding Section
60	60	1001.2031 to read as follows:
61	61	Sec. 1001.2031. SUPPLEMENTAL GRANTS FOR TRAINING CERTAIN
62	62	EDUCATORS IN MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID. For each state fiscal year,
63	63	the department may allocate any unobligated money appropriated for
64	64	making grants under Sections 1001.202 and 1001.203 for supplemental
65	65	grants. The department may give a supplemental grant to a local
66	66	mental health authority that submits to the department a revised
67	67	plan as provided under Section 1001.204 that demonstrates how the
68	68	additional grant money would be used if made available to the
69	69	authority.
70	70	SECTION 6. Section 1001.204(a), Health and Safety Code, as
71	71	added by Chapter 1306 (H.B. 3793), Acts of the 83rd Legislature,
72	72	Regular Session, 2013, is amended to read as follows:
73	73	(a) Not later than July [October] 1 of each state fiscal
74	74	year for which a local mental health authority will seek a grant
75	75	from the department under Section 1001.203, the authority shall
76	76	submit to the department a plan demonstrating the manner in which
77	77	grants made to the authority under that section will be used:
78	78	(1) to train individuals in mental health first aid
79	79	throughout the authority's local service area to maximize the
80	80	number of children who have direct contact with an individual who
81	81	has successfully completed a mental health first aid training
82	82	program provided by the authority;
83	83	(2) to meet the greatest needs of the authority's local
84	84	service area, as identified by the authority; and
85	85	(3) to complement existing resources and not duplicate
86	86	established mental health first aid training efforts.
87	87	SECTION 7. Section 1001.205, Health and Safety Code, as
88	88	added by Chapter 1306 (H.B. 3793), Acts of the 83rd Legislature,
89	89	Regular Session, 2013, is amended to read as follows:
90	90	Sec. 1001.205. REPORTS. (a) Not later than September 30
91	91	[July 1] of each year, a local mental health authority shall provide
92	92	to the department the number of:
93	93	(1) employees and contractors of the authority who
94	94	were trained as mental health first aid trainers under Section
95	95	1001.202 during the preceding fiscal year;
96	96	(2) educators, school district employees other than
97	97	educators, and school resource officers who completed a mental
98	98	health first aid training program offered by the authority under
99	99	Section 1001.203 during the preceding fiscal [calendar] year; and
100	100	(3) individuals who are not school district employees
101	101	or school resource officers [educators] who completed a mental
102	102	health first aid training program offered by the authority during
103	103	the preceding fiscal [calendar] year.
104	104	(b) Not later than December 1 [August 1] of each year, the
105	105	department shall compile the information submitted by local mental
106	106	health authorities as required by Subsection (a) and submit a
107	107	report to the legislature containing the number of:
108	108	(1) authority employees and contractors trained as
109	109	mental health first aid trainers during the preceding fiscal year;
110	110	(2) educators, school district employees other than
111	111	educators, and school resource officers who completed a mental
112	112	health first aid training program provided by an authority during
113	113	the preceding fiscal [calendar] year; and
114	114	(3) individuals who are not school district employees
115	115	or school resource officers [educators] who completed a mental
116	116	health first aid training program provided by an authority during
117	117	the preceding fiscal [calendar] year.
118	118	SECTION 8. The following are repealed:
119	119	(1) Section 1001.202(c), Health and Safety Code, as
120	120	added by Chapter 1306 (H.B. 3793), Acts of the 83rd Legislature,
121	121	Regular Session, 2013; and
122	122	(2) Section 1001.203(b), Health and Safety Code, as
123	123	added by Chapter 1306 (H.B. 3793), Acts of the 83rd Legislature,
124	124	Regular Session, 2013.
125	125	SECTION 9. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
126	126	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
127	127	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
128	128	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
129	129	Act takes effect September 1, 2015.