By: Price, Burkett, Márquez	H.B. No. 197
	(Senate Sponsor - Nelson)
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 13, 2015;
	May 4, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher
	Education; May 14, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable
	Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0;
	May 14, 2015, sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 197	By:  Seliger

	COMMITTEE VOTE
	YeaNayAbsentPNV
	SeligerX
	WestX
	BettencourtX
	BurtonX
	MenéndezX
	PerryX
	WatsonX
	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to requiring certain public institutions of higher
	education to post information regarding mental health resources on
	the institution's Internet website.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 51.9193 to read as follows:
	Sec. 51.9193.  REQUIRED POSTING OF MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES.
	(a) In this section, "local mental health authority" has the
	meaning assigned by Section 531.002, Health and Safety Code.
	(b)  This section applies only to a general academic teaching
	institution, medical and dental unit, public junior college, public
	state college, or public technical institute as those terms are
	defined by Section 61.003.
	(c)  Each institution to which this section applies shall
	create a web page on the institution's Internet website dedicated
	solely to information regarding the mental health resources
	available to students at the institution. The web page must include
	the address of the nearest local mental health authority.
	SECTION 2.  As soon as practicable after the effective date
	of this Act, each public institution of higher education to which
	Section 51.9193, Education Code, as added by this Act, applies
	shall post on its Internet website the information required by that
	section.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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