Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

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1	1	89R5962 MPF-D
2	2	By: Menéndez, Blanco S.B. No. 3020
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7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to a biennial state report on suicide rates, the Texas
10	10	Violent Death Reporting System, and certain suicide data shared
11	11	under a memorandum of understanding.
12	12	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
13	13	SECTION 1. Chapter 547, Government Code, as effective April
14	14	1, 2025, is amended by adding Subchapter K to read as follows:
15	15	SUBCHAPTER K. BIENNIAL STATE REPORT ON SUICIDE
16	16	Sec. 547.0501. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter:
17	17	(1) "Council" means the Statewide Behavioral Health
18	18	Coordinating Council.
19	19	(2) "First responder" has the meaning assigned by
20	20	Section 421.095.
21	21	(3) "Postvention" includes activities promoting
22	22	healing necessary to reduce the risk of suicide by an individual
23	23	affected by the suicide of another.
24	24	Sec. 547.0502. BIENNIAL REPORT. (a) The commission, in
25	25	conjunction with the Department of State Health Services, shall
26	26	prepare a biennial report on the prevalence of suicide in this state
27	27	and state policies and programs adopted across state systems and
28	28	agencies to prevent suicide. The report must:
29	29	(1) incorporate available statewide and regional data
30	30	on the prevalence rates of suicide-related events, including
31	31	suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts, and deaths caused by suicide,
32	32	and to the extent practicable be presented in a form that is:
33	33	(A) disaggregated by county and recognized
34	34	categories of risk; and
35	35	(B) longitudinal to identify changes in suicide
36	36	prevalence rates since 2000;
37	37	(2) identify the highest categories of risk with
38	38	correlational data;
39	39	(3) include information on the prevalence rates of
40	40	suicide-related events among active duty military personnel,
41	41	veterans, first responders, and children and adolescents;
42	42	(4) list state statutes, agency rules, and policies
43	43	related to suicide and suicide prevention, intervention, and
44	44	postvention; and
45	45	(5) describe state agency initiatives taken since 2000
46	46	to address suicide and include the following information relating
47	47	to each initiative:
48	48	(A) the administering state agency;
49	49	(B) the funding sources, including whether the
50	50	funding was provided by:
51	51	(i) a federal block grant;
52	52	(ii) a federal discretionary grant; or
53	53	(iii) state appropriations;
54	54	(C) the years of operation; and
55	55	(D) whether the initiative is a community-based
56	56	effort to address suicide.
57	57	(b) Each state agency or institution of higher education, as
58	58	defined by Section 61.003, Education Code, that designates a
59	59	representative on the council shall provide to the commission the
60	60	information described by Subsection (a), to the extent that
61	61	information pertains to the respective duties of the agency or
62	62	institution.
63	63	(c) Not later than November 1 of each even-numbered year,
64	64	the council shall submit a copy of the report to the governor, the
65	65	lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives,
66	66	and each standing legislative committee with primary jurisdiction
67	67	over health and mental health.
68	68	SECTION 2. Section 193.011, Health and Safety Code, is
69	69	amended by amending Subsections (a) and (c) and adding Subsection
70	70	(b-1) to read as follows:
71	71	(a) In this section, "authorized entity" means the
72	72	department, the Health and Human Services Commission, the Statewide
73	73	Behavioral Health Coordinating Council, a medical examiner, a local
74	74	registrar, a local health authority, a local mental health
75	75	authority, a community mental health center, a mental health center
76	76	that acts as a collection agent for the suicide data reported by
77	77	community mental health centers, or any other political subdivision
78	78	of this state.
79	79	(b-1) The department and the Health and Human Services
80	80	Commission shall enter into a memorandum of understanding to share,
81	81	as soon as practicable, suicide data the vital statistics unit
82	82	collects for the conduct of timely fatality reviews and
83	83	surveillance to prevent additional deaths.
84	84	(c) The suicide data an authorized entity receives or
85	85	provides under Subsection (b) or (b-1) is not confidential.
86	86	SECTION 3. Subchapter D, Chapter 1001, Health and Safety
87	87	Code, is amended by adding Section 1001.090 to read as follows:
88	88	Sec. 1001.090. TEXAS VIOLENT DEATH REPORTING SYSTEM. (a)
89	89	The department shall establish and operate the Texas Violent Death
90	90	Reporting System to participate in the National Violent Death
91	91	Reporting System operated by the federal Centers for Disease
92	92	Control and Prevention.
93	93	(b) The department shall provide suicide data obtained or
94	94	maintained through the Texas Violent Death Reporting System:
95	95	(1) in accordance with a memorandum of understanding
96	96	the department entered into under Section 193.011; and
97	97	(2) to the commission for the biennial state report on
98	98	suicide required under Subchapter K, Chapter 547, Government Code.
99	99	(c) The executive commissioner may adopt rules necessary to
100	100	implement this section.
101	101	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
102	102	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
103	103	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
104	104	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
105	105	Act takes effect September 1, 2025.