86R11311 EAS-D
By: Rosenthal H.B. No. 2307
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring entities that provide mental health services
to veterans to provide military cultural competency training to
personnel to accept a grant from a state agency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 434.352, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
(e) A state agency may not award a grant to an entity for the
provision of mental health services to veterans unless the entity
demonstrates that it provides military cultural competency
training to its personnel who provide the services. The commission
and the Department of State Health Services jointly shall undertake
to ensure that a state agency that may award a grant subject to this
subsection has adopted policies to ensure compliance with this
subsection.
SECTION 2. The heading to Subchapter I, Chapter 1001,
Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER I. MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES [PROGRAM] FOR VETERANS
SECTION 3. Subchapter I, Chapter 1001, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 1001.225 to read as follows:
Sec. 1001.225. LIMITATION ON GRANTS. The department may
not award a grant to an entity for the provision of mental health
services to veterans unless the entity demonstrates that it
provides military cultural competency training to its personnel who
provide the services.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.