Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

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1	1	89R3313 EAS-D
2	2	By: Menéndez S.B. No. 193
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7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to a model suicide prevention policy, suicide prevention
10	10	and intervention strategies incorporated into a state agency crisis
11	11	or disaster plan, suicide death information maintained by the
12	12	Department of State Health Services, and the Texas Violent Death
13	13	Reporting System.
14	14	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
15	15	SECTION 1. Chapter 547, Government Code, as effective April
16	16	1, 2025, is amended by adding Subchapter J to read as follows:
17	17	SUBCHAPTER J. SUICIDE PREVENTION
18	18	Sec. 547.0451. MODEL SUICIDE PREVENTION POLICY. (a) In
19	19	this section, "postvention" includes activities that promote
20	20	healing necessary to reduce the risk of suicide by an individual
21	21	affected by the suicide of another individual.
22	22	(b) The commission shall develop and publish on the
23	23	commission's Internet website a model suicide prevention policy to
24	24	be implemented at state agencies, community coalitions, and other
25	25	public or private institutions or facilities that serve populations
26	26	at higher risk for suicide, including veterans, individuals with
27	27	disabilities, and individuals who live in rural areas of this
28	28	state. The policy must be designed for implementation by
29	29	individuals who may not be mental health professionals.
30	30	(c) The policy must include:
31	31	(1) information on suicide prevention, intervention,
32	32	and postvention;
33	33	(2) information on recognizing warning signs of
34	34	suicide; and
35	35	(3) resources, including local mental health
36	36	authorities, for individuals at risk of suicide.
37	37	(d) The policy must address the development of community
38	38	coalitions to engage in suicide prevention, intervention, and
39	39	postvention activities, especially in high-risk rural areas of this
40	40	state.
41	41	(e) In developing the policy under this section, the
42	42	commission:
43	43	(1) shall collaborate with the statewide behavioral
44	44	health coordinating council established under Subchapter D and the
45	45	Texas Suicide Prevention Collaborative; and
46	46	(2) may receive information or assistance from any
47	47	other interested statewide or local entities engaged in suicide
48	48	prevention, intervention, and postvention.
49	49	Sec. 547.0452. CRISIS AND DISASTER PLANS. (a) Not later
50	50	than August 31, 2026, the commission, in collaboration with the
51	51	Disaster Behavioral Health Consortium, shall:
52	52	(1) for the purpose of identifying opportunities to
53	53	incorporate suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention
54	54	strategies:
55	55	(A) conduct a review of crisis plans and disaster
56	56	plans of state agency consortium members; and
57	57	(B) identify lessons learned from responses by
58	58	state agency consortium members during prior crises or disasters;
59	59	and
60	60	(2) based on the information obtained under
61	61	Subdivision (1), recommend to each state agency consortium member
62	62	incorporating suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention
63	63	strategies into a crisis plan or disaster plan.
64	64	(b) Not later than August 1, 2027, each state agency member
65	65	of the Disaster Behavioral Health Consortium shall incorporate
66	66	recommendations the commission made under Subsection (a) into the
67	67	agency's crisis plan or disaster plan.
68	68	(c) This section expires September 1, 2027.
69	69	SECTION 2. Section 191.002(b), Health and Safety Code, is
70	70	amended to read as follows:
71	71	(b) The department shall:
72	72	(1) establish a vital statistics unit in the
73	73	department with suitable offices that are properly equipped for the
74	74	preservation of its official records;
75	75	(2) establish a statewide system of vital statistics;
76	76	(3) provide instructions and prescribe forms for
77	77	collecting, recording, transcribing, compiling, and preserving
78	78	vital statistics;
79	79	(4) require the enforcement of this title and rules
80	80	adopted under this title;
81	81	(5) prepare, print, and supply to local registrars
82	82	forms for registering, recording, and preserving returns or
83	83	otherwise carrying out the purposes of this title; [and]
84	84	(6) propose legislation necessary for the purposes of
85	85	this title; and
86	86	(7) provide access to information regarding suicides
87	87	in this state to the statewide suicide prevention coordinator of
88	88	the Health and Human Services Commission's office of mental health
89	89	coordination.
90	90	SECTION 3. Subchapter D, Chapter 1001, Health and Safety
91	91	Code, is amended by adding Section 1001.090 to read as follows:
92	92	Sec. 1001.090. TEXAS VIOLENT DEATH REPORTING SYSTEM. (a)
93	93	The department shall establish and operate the Texas Violent Death
94	94	Reporting System for the purpose of participating in the National
95	95	Violent Death Reporting System operated by the Centers for Disease
96	96	Control and Prevention.
97	97	(b) The department shall provide access to suicide data
98	98	obtained or maintained through the Texas Violent Death Reporting
99	99	System to the statewide suicide prevention coordinator of the
100	100	commission's office of mental health coordination.
101	101	(c) The executive commissioner may adopt rules necessary to
102	102	implement this section.
103	103	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
104	104	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
105	105	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
106	106	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
107	107	Act takes effect September 1, 2025.