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TX SB193
Bill
Status
11/12/2024
Primary Sponsor
Jose Menendez
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AI Summary
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Requires the Health and Human Services Commission to develop and publish a model suicide prevention policy on its website for use by state agencies, community coalitions, and institutions serving high-risk populations including veterans, individuals with disabilities, and rural residents
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The model policy must include information on suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention (healing activities after a suicide), warning signs recognition, and mental health resources, designed for implementation by non-mental health professionals
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Directs the commission to review state agency crisis and disaster plans by August 31, 2026, and recommend suicide prevention strategies to Disaster Behavioral Health Consortium member agencies, who must incorporate recommendations by August 1, 2027
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Requires the Department of State Health Services to provide suicide information from vital statistics records to the statewide suicide prevention coordinator at HHSC's office of mental health coordination
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Establishes the Texas Violent Death Reporting System within DSHS to participate in the federal National Violent Death Reporting System operated by the CDC, with suicide data shared with the statewide suicide prevention coordinator
Legislative Description
Relating to a model suicide prevention policy, suicide prevention and intervention strategies incorporated into a state agency crisis or disaster plan, suicide death information maintained by the Department of State Health Services, and the Texas Violent Death Reporting System.
STATE HEALTH SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF
Last Action
Referred to Health & Human Services
2/3/2025