By: Gutierrez H.B. No. 2571
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to establishment of a research and clinical care center
for combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder and related
conditions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 74, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 74.155 to read as follows:
Sec. 74.155. NATIONAL CENTER FOR WARRIOR RESILIENCY.(a)
In this section, "PTSD" means posttraumatic stress disorder and
related conditions.
(b) The University of Texas Health Science Center at San
Antonio shall establish and maintain the National Center for
Warrior Resiliency, a center devoted to research and clinical care
regarding:
(1) the detection, prevention, diagnosis, and
treatment of combat-related PTSD and comorbid conditions; and
(2) enhancing the psychological resiliency of
military personnel and veterans.
(c) The center shall foster multi-disciplinary and multi-
institutional research collaborations, and for that purpose may
establish or participate in research consortia with other Texas
and national public and private institutions of higher education
and appropriate federal agencies such as the United States
Veterans Administration, the United States Department of Defense,
and the National Institutes of Health.
(d) The health science center shall seek funding for center
operations through gifts, grants, donations, including sponsored
research.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
the vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2017.