By: Price, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) H.B. No. 2895
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2017;
May 8, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher
Education; May 12, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 12, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the requirement that certain public institutions of
higher education post mental health resources on the institution's
Internet website.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 51.9193, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
follows:
(c) Each institution to which this section applies shall:
(1) create a web page on the institution's Internet
website that:
(A) is dedicated solely to information regarding
the mental health resources available to students at the
institution, regardless of whether the resources are provided by
the institution; and
(B) includes[. The web page must include] the
address of the nearest local mental health authority; and
(2) maintain a conspicuous link on the institution's
Internet website home page to the web page described by Subdivision
(1).
(d) Not later than August 1 of each year, the president or
the president's designee of an institution to which this section
applies shall certify to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating
Board the institution's compliance with this section.
SECTION 2. An institution of higher education to which
Section 51.9193, Education Code, applies shall comply with Section
51.9193(c), Education Code, as amended by this Act, not later than
December 1, 2017.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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