86R12798 EAS-D
By: Thierry H.B. No. 2693
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the establishment of a grant program to enhance
community-based suicide prevention efforts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 531.09991 to read as follows:
Sec. 531.09991. GRANT PROGRAM FOR COMMUNITY-BASED SUICIDE
PREVENTION EFFORTS. (a) To the extent money is available to the
commission for that purpose, the commission shall establish a
program to provide grants to quasi-governmental or nonprofit
entities for the purpose of establishing and enhancing
community-based suicide prevention efforts.
(b) Grant money awarded under this section may be used only
to:
(1) support the implementation, administration, and
coordination of the 2018 Texas State Plan for Suicide Prevention
adopted by the Texas Suicide Prevention Council;
(2) support the operations of the quasi-governmental
and nonprofit entities receiving grant money to expand local
community-based suicide prevention efforts;
(3) support suicide prevention efforts in certain
communities of practice, including veterans, primary and secondary
education students, higher education students, persons who reside
in rural areas, and persons working in health care;
(4) facilitate statewide partnerships and
collaborations;
(5) expand the capacities of community-based suicide
prevention programs to collect and analyze information to inform
suicide prevention strategies;
(6) foster and promote emerging and promising best
practices in suicide prevention;
(7) offer outreach and communications structures
supporting the 2018 Texas State Plan for Suicide Prevention; or
(8) subcontract with another quasi-governmental or
nonprofit entity acceptable to the commission to accomplish the
purposes described by Subdivisions (1)-(7).
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date
of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human
Services Commission shall adopt rules necessary to implement
Section 531.09991, Government Code, as added by this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.