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23 Document(s) [ Subject: Children's mental health ]
| Committee: | Senate Health and Human Services | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Assisted living facilities | At-risk youth | Cancer | Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas | Child welfare | Children without placement | Children's mental health | Coronavirus | Emergency management | Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 | Family and Protective Services, Texas Department of | Foster care | Health and Human Services Commission, Texas | Health care | Health insurance | Hurricane Beryl | Intermediate Care Facilities for Persons with Mental Disabilities | Juvenile detention facilities | Long-term care | Medicaid | Medicaid fraud | Medical licensing | Medical screening | Mental health services | Nursing education | Nursing homes | Nursing shortages | Occupational licenses | Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | Physician shortages | Power outages | Thriving Texas Families | Vaccine mandates | Workforce Commission, Texas | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.88 H349 | |
| Session: | 88th R.S. (2023) | |
| Online version: | View report [94 pages File size: 3,997 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Children’s Mental Health: Review care and services currently available to the growing population of Texas children with high acuity mental and behavioral health needs. Make recommendations to improve access to care and services for these children that will support family preservation and prevent them from entering the child welfare system. | |
| 2. | Access to Health Care: Evaluate current access to primary and mental health care. Examine whether regulatory and licensing flexibilities could improve access to care, particularly in medically underserved areas of Texas. Make recommendations, if any, to improve access to care while maintaining patient safety. | |
| 3. | Health Insurance: Examine the Texas health insurance market and alternatives to employer-based insurance. Identify barriers Texans face when navigating a complex health insurance market. Make recommendations that help individuals obtain health care coverage. | |
| 4. | Cancer Prevention: Identify and recommend ways to address the growing impact of cancer on Texans by evaluating state investments in cancer prevention and screenings including, but not limited to, "CT," "MRI," and "PET" scans. Study and make recommendations on funding adequacy for prevention efforts at the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). | |
| 5. | Monitoring: Monitor the implementation of legislation addressed by the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services passed by the 88th Legislature, as well as relevant agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction. Specifically, make recommendations for any legislation needed to improve, enhance, or complete implementation of the following:
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| 6. | Protecting Vulnerable Texans in Emergencies: Examine commercial residential settings for the elderly and individuals with intellectual disabilities, including assisted living facilities, boarding homes, group homes, and independent living communities. Identify emergency preparedness and response protocols required during severe weather for these populations. Make recommendations, if necessary, for the establishment and enforcement of emergency protocols to ensure vulnerable populations are protected. | |
| Committee: | Senate State Affairs | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Affordable housing | Age (Law) | Agriculture | Alcohol laws and regulations | Audits | Beverages | Bingo | BlackRock | Boycotts | Child welfare | Children's mental health | Citizenship | Compassionate Use Act, Texas | Countywide Polling Place Program | Distilleries | e-commerce | Election administration | Election security | Electioneering | Elections | Emergency shelters | Environmental, Social, and Governance | Farm Bill | Farm produce | Financial investments | Foreign real estate transactions | Freedom of speech | Gambling | Government transparency | Hemp | High tech industry | Homelessness | Immigrants | Impeachment | Investment of public funds | Ku Klux Klan | Landlords and tenants | Lottery Commission, Texas | Lottery.com | Marijuana | Minors | Natural gas industry | Oil industry | Open government | Open Meetings Act, Texas | Open records requests and decisions | Paxton, Ken | Political violence | Pornography | Primary elections | Product safety | Public demonstrations | Public Information Act, Texas | Public retirement systems | Real estate transactions | Runoff elections | School districts | Secretary of State, Texas | Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act | Social media | State comparisons | Substance abuse | Texas Constitution | Texas Distilled Spirits Association | Texas history | Texas Lottery | Transitional housing | U.S. Constitution | Voter registration | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.88 ST29A | |
| Session: | 88th R.S. (2023) | |
| Online version: | View report [93 pages File size: 2,963 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Maintaining Election Security: Identify threats to Texas’s election integrity, including those from "Big Tech" and foreign entities. Recommend ways to neutralize such threats. Additionally, evaluate the countywide polling place program in Texas. Make recommendations to address countywide polling issues, such as increased wait times, longer travel distances, supply shortages, and reporting irregularities. Evaluate current laws that prohibit political subdivisions and public school districts from using government resources for illegal electioneering. Make recommendations to strengthen these laws and put a stop to illegal electioneering. | |
| 2. | Social Media & Protecting Children: Study the impact of social media use on children. Review current mechanisms in place to protect minors online. Monitor the implementation of HB 18, 88th R.S., relating to the protection of minors from harmful, deceptive, or unfair trade practices in connection with the use of certain digital services and electronic devices, including the use and transfer of electronic devices to students by a public school. Make policy recommendations to further protect Texas children online. | |
| 3. | Protecting Texas Land and Assets: Evaluate strategic land and asset acquisitions in Texas by foreign entities that threaten the safety and security of the United States. Further, evaluate large-scale purchases of single-family homes by domestic entities and its impact on housing affordability for Texas families. Make recommendations to ensure Texans are secure from foreign threats and homes are affordable in our state. | |
| 4. | Responsible Investing: Study the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors on our state’s public pensions, with a focus on proxy voting services. Make recommendations to ensure our state’s pension systems vote and invest in accordance with their fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Additionally, monitor the implementation of SB 13, 87th R.S., relating to state contracts with and investments in certain companies that boycott energy companies. Specifically, examine how a company is removed from the list of companies that boycott energy companies when the company ceases to boycott energy companies. Report on how frequently the list maintained by the comptroller is updated and make recommendations to ensure an ongoing accurate list. | |
| 5. | Banning Delta 8 and 9: Examine the sale of intoxicating hemp products in Texas. Make recommendations to further regulate the sale of these products, and suggest legislation to stop retailers who market these products to children. | |
| 6. | Impeachment Reform: Evaluate the constitutional and statutory impeachment procedures in our state. Make recommendations to ensure a fair and transparent process. | |
| 7. | Runoff Elections: Study the prerequisites, timing, and efficiency of runoff elections. Make recommendations to increase the efficiency and lower the costs of runoff elections. Examine the 50% vote threshold to avoid a runoff, particularly when four or more candidates are running for the same office. Report whether the vote percentage threshold should be lowered in some instances. | |
| 8. | Lottery: Study "lottery courier services," which allow their clients to purchase lottery tickets over the internet. Report on the number of couriers and the magnitude of sales from such services in Texas. Determine whether courier services are operating legally in Texas and whether a change in law is needed to respond to technological advancements to protect children in our state and to maintain original legislative intent. Recommend legislation to clarify Texas’s laws regarding online lottery sales. | |
| 9. | Unmasking Protestors: Study the use of face coverings and hoods designed to conceal the identity of those bent on committing crimes at protests. Recommend legislation to stop the chaos and destruction by those who attempt to commit crimes while concealing their identity during public gatherings. | |
| 10. | Stop Noncitizen Voting: Evaluate the current safeguards in place to prevent noncitizens from voting in elections. Recommend legislation to facilitate the removal of noncitizen voters from the voter rolls as well as legislation to prevent noncitizens from registering to vote in Texas. | |
| 11. | Beverages with THC: Evaluate Texas laws and regulations concerning THC beverage manufacturing and delivery. Report on the current regulations and safeguards Texas may or may not have in place for drinks with any amount of THC. Recommend legislation to protect Texas consumers. | |
| 12. | Public Trust in Government: Examine the current state of accountability, ethics, and transparency in local government. Recommend ways to bolster public trust in local government by strengthening the Public Information Act and Open Meetings Act. | |
| 13. | Addressing Homelessness: Study programs that address the homelessness crisis in Texas. Specifically, review programs like Haven for Hope and determine whether such programs could be a model throughout our state. Propose legislation to address the root causes of homelessness by expanding successful programs for cities of all sizes. | |
| 14. | Election Audit Reports: Evaluate the Secretary of State’s election audit reports. Make recommendations to secure our elections and ensure counties follow the law. | |
| 15. | Monitoring: Monitor the implementation of legislation addressed by the Senate Committee on State Affairs passed by the 88th Legislature. Specifically, evaluate the impact of SB 2284, 88th R.S. relating to the sale of distilled spirits to ultimate consumers by the holder of a distiller's and rectifier's permit. Report whether the increased sale of distilled spirits has had a positive impact on economic development and public safety in this industry. | |
| Committee: | House Youth Health and Safety, Select | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | At-risk youth | Children's mental health | Family First Prevention Services Act | Health and Human Services Commission, Texas | Mental health services | School armed security officers | School safety | School shootings | Security measures | Student mental health | Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium | Texas Children's Commission | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.88 Y88HS | |
| Session: | 88th R.S. (2023) | |
| Online version: | View report [30 pages File size: 2,232 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Monitoring: Monitor the programs under the Committee’s jurisdiction and oversee the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 88th Legislature. Conduct active oversight of all associated rulemaking and other governmental actions taken to ensure the intended legislative outcome of all legislation, including the following:
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| 2. | Behavioral Health Services for At-Risk Youth: Evaluate programs and services currently available to children and families that are either involved with, or at high risk for becoming involved with, the foster care and juvenile justice systems. Study the current barriers for accessing community-based behavioral health services for children with intense behavioral health needs, with an emphasis on ensuring that parents do not have to give up custody of children to gain access to services. | |
| Committee: | House Public Education | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Border education | Border issues | Career preparedness | Children's mental health | Coronavirus | Educational accountability | Educational tests | Federal funds | Parent-school relationships | Public schools | School finance | Sex education | Special education | State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness | Teacher retention | Teacher retirement | Teacher Retirement System of Texas | Teacher salaries | Teacher shortages | Teacher training | Undocumented immigrant students | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.87 Ed84h | |
| Session: | 87th R.S. (2021) | |
| Online version: | View report [118 pages File size: 5,785 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Examine the impact, including any financial impact, to the Texas public school system of an increase in the number of children crossing the Texas-Mexico border. Review the history, any applicable precedents, and the legal landscape regarding the education of migrant children in Texas’s public schools. | |
| 2. | Review the ongoing development of federal laws, rules, and regulations associated with the distribution of the federal pandemic recovery funds, including reporting requirements, and make recommendations to the House Committee on Appropriations for use of the funds to respond to the Texas-Mexico border crisis. | |
| 3. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the Committee’s jurisdiction and oversee the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 87th Legislature. Conduct active oversight of all associated rulemaking and other governmental actions taken to ensure the intended legislative outcome of all legislation, including the following:
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| 4. | Complete study of assigned charges related to the Texas-Mexico border issued in June 2021. | |
| 5. | Identify and examine efforts to ensure that parents have a meaningful role in their children’s education. Recommend necessary changes in both independent school district board and open- enrollment charter governing board governance to protect the right of parents to participate in their child’s education. | |
| 6. | Examine partnerships between K-12, higher education institutions, and employers that promote postsecondary and career readiness and identify current obstacles that public schools, higher education institutions, and employers face. Make recommendations to ensure career and technical education programs, internships, apprenticeships, and other opportunities are more accessible. | |
| 7. | Evaluate the impact of the pandemic on the state’s teacher workforce, and current practices to improve the recruitment, preparation, and retention of high-quality educators. Explore the impact of the educator preparation program regulatory environment. Make recommendations to improve educator recruitment, retention, and preparation throughout the state. (Joint charge with Committee on Higher Education) | |
| 8. | Study the effects of COVID-19 on K-12 learning loss and best practices that exist to address learning loss. Monitor the implementation of state and local plans to address students' achievement gaps. Make recommendations for supporting the state and local efforts to increase academic development. | |
| 9. | Examine the impact of COVID-19 on students' mental health, including the availability and workload of mental health professionals across the state and their role in the public school system. Make recommendations to reduce or eliminate existing barriers to providing mental health services in a traditional classroom setting or through teletherapy. | |
| 10. | Study the unfulfilled recommendations from the 2016 Commission on Next Generation Assessments and Accountability. Evaluate the state’s progress on assessments and accountability and consider possible legislation to support the recommendations from the report. Study and recommend measures needed at the state level to prevent unintended consequences to students, campuses, and districts, including changes that could improve the system for students or help public schools serving a disproportionate number of educationally disadvantaged students impacted by the pandemic. | |
| Committee: | House Youth Health and Safety, Select | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Child Protective Services | Children's health care | Children's mental health | Coronavirus | Emergency communications | Emergency management | Gun safety | Inmate rehabilitation | Juvenile justice system | Mental health services | School discipline | School safety | Shootings | Youthful offenders | | |
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| Session: | 87th R.S. (2021) | |
| Online version: | View report [56 pages File size: 2,708 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Provide a cross-jurisdictional forum for the examination and consideration of issues that broadly affect the health, safety, and rights of Texas youth. | |
| 2. | Improve the ability of federal, state, and local governmental entities to address the needs of Texas youth through, among other things, expanded coordination between all programs and systems that serve youth and their families, including child protective services, mental health services, educational institutions, and the juvenile justice system. | |
| 3. | Study the allocation and use of state resources to preventative and rehabilitative services that address the primary challenges facing Texas youth placed in the juvenile justice system, including the redirection of those resources as necessary to ensure effectiveness and efficiency. | |
| 4. | Study the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health needs of Texas youth and identification of effective treatment strategies. | |
| 5. | Study the expansion of prevention efforts and the strengthening of service systems to permit the behavioral health challenges faced by Texas youth to be addressed closer to their homes, including efforts and systems that permit youth to remain in their classrooms and stay out of institutionalized healthcare and juvenile justice systems. | |
| 6. | Study programs, services, and governmental action focused on the rehabilitation of youthful offenders, including considerations related to developmental factors that impact a youth's entry into the justice system. | |
| 7. | Study the implementation and impact of SB 11, 86th R.S. and any other pertinent laws. Identify additional policies, protocols and strategies that will help create a safer environment in schools and local communities. | |
| 8. | Examine strategies to prevent acts of mass violence, including measures to enhance firearm safety in Texas. | |
| 9. | Evaluate the preparedness of and coordination between state and local agencies, nongovernmental entities, and law enforcement for the prevention of and response to mass violence, including the content and efficacy of active shooter response training. | |
| 10. | Examine the role of online communications in mass violence scenarios and identify technological resources and solutions for detecting, mitigating, and reporting threats. | |
| 11. | Study the needs of the state related to mental health professionals, educators, school administrators, and related professionals overseeing youth mental health programs and the delivery of those mental health services. | |
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | House Youth Health and Safety, Select | |
| Title: | Committee meeting handouts and testimony, August 8, 2022 | |
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| Session: | 87th R.S. (2021) | |
| Online version: | View document [169 pages File size: 26,497 kb] | |
| Committee: | House Public Health | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Affordable housing | Alzheimer's disease | Child Protective Services | Children's mental health | Dementia | Family preservation | Homelessness | Housing | Maternal mortality | Medicaid | Mental health services | Mentally ill persons | Organ and tissue donations | Rural areas | Rural health care | Substance abuse | Telemedicine | Transitional housing | Women's health | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.85 H349h | |
| Session: | 85th R.S. (2017) | |
| Online version: | View report [125 pages] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Review state programs that provide women’s health services and recommend solutions to increase access to effective and timely care. During the review, identify services provided in each program, the number of providers and clients participating in the programs, and the enrollment and transition process between programs. Monitor the work of the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force and recommend solutions to reduce maternal deaths and morbidity. In addition, review the correlation between pre-term and low birth weight births and the use of alcohol and tobacco. Consider options to increase treatment options and deter usage of these substances. | |
| 2. | Study treatment of traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's, and dementia, and recommend opportunities for advancing treatment and cures. | |
| 3. | Study and make recommendations to improve services available for identifying and treating children with mental illness, including the application of trauma- and grief-informed practices. Identify strategies to assist in understanding the impact and recognizing the signs of trauma in children and providing school-based or community-based mental health services to children who need them. Analyze the role of the Texas Education Agency and of the regional Education Service Centers regarding mental health. In addition, review programs that treat early psychosis among youth and young adults. | |
| 4. | Study the overlays among housing instability, homelessness, and mental illness. Review the availability of supportive housing opportunities for individuals with mental illness. Consider options to address housing stability and homelessness among people with mental illness. (Joint charge with the House Committee on Urban Affairs) | |
| 5. | Review opportunities to improve population health and health care delivery in rural and urban medically underserved areas. Identify potential opportunities to improve access to care, including the role of telemedicine. In the review, identify the challenges facing rural hospitals and the impact of rural hospital closures. | |
| 6. | Analyze the prevalence of children involved with Child Protective Services (CPS) who have a mental illness and/or a substance use disorder. In addition, analyze the prevalence of children involved with CPS due to their guardian's substance abuse or because of an untreated mental illness. Identify methods to strengthen CPS processes and services, including efforts for family preservation; increasing the number of appropriate placements designed for children with high needs; and ensuring Texas Medicaid is providing access to appropriate and effective behavioral health services. (Joint charge with the House Committee on Human Services) | |
| 7. | Evaluate the process of organ and bone marrow donations. Consider opportunities to improve organ and bone marrow donation awareness in order to increase the number of willing donors. | |
| 8. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the Committee’s jurisdiction and oversee the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 85th Legislature. In conducting this oversight, the Committee will also specifically closely monitor the implementation of H.B. 10 (85R), H.B. 13 (85R), and S.B. 292 (85R). | |
| 9. | Consider testimony provided at the May 17 House Public Health Committee hearing regarding improving mental health services for children. Identify specific strategies that would enhance overall school safety. Study ways to help parents, youth and primary care providers support school personnel in their efforts to identify and intervene early when mental health problems arise. In addition to school-based trauma-informed programs and those that treat early psychosis, consider the benefits of universal screening tools and expanding the Child Psychiatry Access Program (CPAP). Make recommendations to enhance collaboration among the Health and Human Services Commission, the Texas Education Agency, local mental health authorities, and education service centers. | |
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | House Public Health | |
| Title: | Committee meeting handouts and testimony, May 17, 2018 (Mental health and children). | |
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| Session: | 85th R.S. (2017) | |
| Online version: | View document [176 pages File size: 9,928 kb] | |
| Committee: | House Public Health | |
| Title: | Committee meeting handouts and testimony, August 9, 2018 (joint hearing with House Committee on Public Health). | |
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| Session: | 85th R.S. (2017) | |
| Online version: | View document [87 pages File size: 3,035 kb] | |
| Committee: | House Mental Health, Select | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Children's mental health | Homelessness | Mental health services | Rural health care | Veterans | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.84 M528 | |
| Session: | 84th R.S. (2015) | |
| Online version: | View report [117 pages] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Review the behavioral health system, including substance abuse treatment, for adults and children. Make recommendations to improve the delivery and coordination of services to create an integrated system to improve early identification of mental illness, improve access and continuity of services, reduce barriers to treatment, and increase collaboration between entities responsible for the delivery of care in a manner that will ultimately reduce cost and improve care. | |
| 2. | Identify educational, healthcare, law enforcement, criminal justice, judiciary, state, county, and city entities that are statutorily or contractually responsible for the identification or delivery of behavioral health services. Review how the services are directly or indirectly connected and how the entities work together. | |
| 3. | Review entry points into the mental health system for both adults and children; how individuals gain access to services; what services are available; the effectiveness of services; and how to define, prioritize, measure, and improve outcomes achieved for adults and children. | |
| 4. | Identify local and state cost of mental health in Texas and identify measures to reduce cost to the overall system by improving care. | |
| 5. | Study and recommend solutions for the challenges within the current system, including, but not limited to, how to provide effective services in the short term and close gaps over the longer term in mental-health workforce shortage areas; access to appropriate mental health care for school-age children, including those identified through Mental Health First Aid training, to break the school to juvenile detention to prison pipeline; factors contributing to differences in communities’ access to law enforcement and Judges with specific mental health training; communities’ access to crises intervention and jail diversion services; communities’ ability to plan and coordinate between healthcare providers and systems, law enforcement, the judiciary, and the criminal justice systems to deliver and coordinate care; and the location and availability of inpatient treatment beds, including how the need for inpatient beds varies by the effectiveness of the entire system. Also, identify obstacles to adequate insurance coverage for mental health services. | |
| 6. | Identify the challenges of providing care and increasing access to veterans, homeless Texans, and individuals with serious mental illness. | |
| 7. | Examine challenges of providing services in underserved and rural areas of the state and in communities serving high numbers of Texans below 200% poverty level. | |
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | House Mental Health, Select | |
| Title: | Committee meeting handouts and testimony, February 18, 2016 (Mental health and behavioral health) | |
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| Session: | 84th R.S. (2015) | |
| Online version: | View document [181 pages File size: 9,046 kb] | |
| Committee: | House Mental Health, Select | |
| Title: | Committee meeting handouts and testimony, March 22, 2016 (Children and mental health) | |
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| Session: | 84th R.S. (2015) | |
| Online version: | View document [184 pages File size: 11,847 kb] | |
| Committee: | House Mental Health, Select | |
| Title: | Committee meeting handouts and testimony, April 27, 2016 (Mental health and behavioral health care) | |
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| Session: | 84th R.S. (2015) | |
| Online version: | View document [87 pages File size: 4,917 kb] | |
| Committee: | House Mental Health, Select | |
| Title: | Committee meeting handouts and testimony, April 28, 2016 (Mental health and behavioral health care) | |
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| Session: | 84th R.S. (2015) | |
| Online version: | View document [79 pages File size: 4,218 kb] | |
| Committee: | House Mental Health, Select | |
| Title: | Committee meeting handouts and testimony, June 2, 2016 (Insurance - coverage for collaborate care, representatives of commercial health plans and state employee health plans, Medicaid and CHIP; law enforcement/criminal justice) | |
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| Session: | 84th R.S. (2015) | |
| Online version: | View document [149 pages File size: 6,864 kb] | |
| Committee: | House Mental Health, Select | |
| Title: | Committee meeting handouts and testimony, August 18, 2016 (Homeless, substance abuse, and veteran services) | |
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| Session: | 84th R.S. (2015) | |
| Online version: | View document [156 pages File size: 9,496 kb] | |
| Committee: | House Mental Health, Select | |
| Title: | Committee meeting handouts and testimony, September 22, 2016 (Mental health hospitals, mental health services - public institutions of higher ed) | |
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| Session: | 84th R.S. (2015) | |
| Online version: | View document [130 pages File size: 6,254 kb] | |
| Committee: | House Criminal Jurisprudence | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Alternatives to incarceration | Children's mental health | Criminal records | Deferred adjudication | Inmate rehabilitation | Internet | Jail population | Juvenile crime | Juvenile justice system | Juveniles certified as adults | Mental health services | Mentally ill inmates | Parole | Prisoner re-entry | Probation | Public information | Recidivism | Restorative justice | Rules of the Texas House of Representatives | State jail system | Statutory revision | Substance abuse | Texas Penal Code | Vandalism | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.83 C868h | |
| Session: | 83rd R.S. (2013) | |
| Online version: | View report [82 pages] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study the classification of 17-year-olds as adults in the criminal justice system of Texas. | |
| 2. | Study the effectiveness of deferred adjudication and orders for non-disclosure in spite of the many exceptions to the statute. Study extending the use of expunction of criminal records history and non-disclosures to certain qualified individuals with low-level, non-violent convictions. Examine the statutorily allowed but underused non-disclosure and expunction of criminal records, and the use of deferred adjudication. | |
| 3. | Study the impact of SB 1289, 83rd R.S.. Examine the sale of criminal histories that may be erroneous as well as the lasting impact that arrest records have on individuals who are arrested but not charged or convicted. Assess the need for revision of existing statutes and consider designating an agency responsible for regulating entities involved in the industry. | |
| 4. | Examine the association between co-occurring serious mental illness and substance use disorders and parole revocation among inmates from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Review current policies and procedures for incarcerating individuals with a dual mental health diagnosis in both state and county correctional facilities and examine potential remedies within the State's criminal justice system to ensure that the public is protected and that individuals with a mental health diagnosis receive a continuum of mental health services. (Joint charge with the House Committee on Corrections) | |
| 5. | Examine the current pecuniary loss thresholds associated with graffiti offenses. Study the costs of enhancing the penalties associated with the offense of graffiti, as well as a study of pretrial diversion programs that exist in other states and are specific to persons convicted of graffiti offenses. Study the existing Graffiti Abatement Programs in Texas. | |
| 6. | Evaluate the approximately 1,500 non-traditional criminal offenses that can be found outside of the Penal Code. Study the feasibility of streamlining these offenses and examine ambiguities in the law. Study the existing use of the Rule of Lenity and Mens Rea requirements in Texas and the benefit of codifying both of these standards. | |
| 7. | Examine the utilization of community supervision in state jail felonies and the effectiveness of the state jail in light of its original purpose. | |
| 8. | Conduct legislative oversight and monitoring of the agencies and programs under the committee’s jurisdiction and the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 83rd Legislature. In conducting this oversight, the committee should: a. consider any reforms to state agencies to make them more responsive to Texas taxpayers and citizens; b. identify issues regarding the agency or its governance that may be appropriate to investigate, improve, remedy, or eliminate; c. determine whether an agency is operating in a transparent and efficient manner; and d. identify opportunities to streamline programs and services while maintaining the mission of the agency and its programs. | |
| Committee: | Senate Health and Human Services | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report to the 80th Legislature | |
| Subjects: | 211 telephone system | Adult Protective Services | Caseworkers | Child nutrition programs | Child Protective Services | Children's Health Insurance Program enrollment and eligibility | Children's mental health | Diet and nutrition | Family and Protective Services, Texas Department of | Federally qualified health centers | Guardianship | Health care | Immunizations | Influenza | Medicaid | Medical assistants | Mental health services | Mentally ill inmates | Mentally ill persons | Nurses | Nursing shortages | Obesity | Pharmacists | Physical fitness | Physicians | Services for persons with disabilities | Social service agencies | Stem cell research | Telemedicine | Texas Emerging Technology Fund | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.79 H349 | |
| Session: | 79th R.S. (2005) | |
| Online version: | View report [201 pages File size: 3,167 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study and make recommendations for improving delivery of Texas' mental health services; consider local and regional delivery systems including access to care, cost effectiveness, choice and competition, and quality of care. | |
| 2. | Monitor state and federal Medicaid reform proposals, including their impact on the Medicaid program in Texas, as well as cost-containment measures in other states, and make recommendations for legislative action, as appropriate. | |
| 3. | Study and make recommendations relating to filling shortages in the health care workforce and improving medical educational services. Evaluate the state's use of the National Health Service Corps and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) to address the needs of the Medicaid/Medicare and underinsured populations | |
| 4. | Examine the strategies used by other states that have had success with FQHCs and make recommendations for increasing the number of FQHCs in Texas. | |
| 5. | Study and make recommendations relating to policy issues surrounding the use of emerging skin cell research, and other technologies. | |
| 6. | Study and make recommendations for improving vaccination rates and ensuring an adequate vaccination supply in the state. Include an analysis of vaccine manufacturing and purchasing policies. | |
| 7. | Evaluate and make recommendations relating to the creation of a comprehensive and statewide nutrition and physical activity plan to address obesity and chronic diseases. Examine options for funding components of such a plan. | |
| 8. | Monitor the implementation of SB 6, 79th R.S., relating to Child and Adult Protective Services. Study and make recommendations for development and enhancements to protocols for joint investigations by child protective service workers and law enforcement and for interviews with children for disclosure of abuse. | |
| 9. | Study the current use of the 2-1-1 network to provide access to information on federal, state, and local resources. Examine and make recommendations on strategies that improve the coordination of service information and expand the availability of information on services currently provided by community and faith-based organizations. | |
| 10. | Monitor the implementation of HB 2292, 78th R.S., relating to health and human services. Focus on implementation of service coordination and consolidation efforts to assess the impact on service quality, while reducing costs. | |
| Committee: | House Emotionally Disturbed Youth, Special | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report to the speaker and the Texas House of Representatives, Sixty-fifth Legislature / by the Special Committee on Emotionally Disturbed Youth. | |
| Subjects: | At-risk youth | Children's mental health | Mental health services | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.74 em69 | |
| Session: | 64th R.S. (1975) | |
| Online version: | View report [7 pages File size: 345 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Review state and local programs to assist emotionally disturbed juveniles. * | |
| Committee: | House Emotionally Disturbed Children, Interim | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Child mental health crisis in Texas : an open letter to the 63rd Legislature / from the House Interim Committee on Emotionally Disturbed Children. | |
| Subjects: | Children's mental health | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.62 em69ch | |
| Session: | 62nd R.S. (1971) | |
| Online version: | View report [4 pages File size: 216 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Study current programs, facilities, treatment, and care of the emotionally disturbed child. | |
| Committee: | House Psychiatric Problems of Youth | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report of the Committee to Study the Psychiatric Problems of Youth. | |
| Subjects: | At-risk youth | Children's mental health | Drug rehabilitation programs | Mental health services | Substance abuse | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.61 p959 | |
| Session: | 61st R.S. (1969) | |
| Online version: | View report [15 pages File size: 682 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Study the psychiatric problems of youth, including mental health issues related to drug abuse. Determine the extent of the need for mental health services for young people, and make recommendations for improving the services available to at-risk youth. * | |
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | House Psychiatric Problems of Youth | |
| Title: | Transcript and Exhibits, October 16, 1970, Dallas (Testimony of W. Forrest Smith) | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.61 P959M 10/16/70 | |
| Session: | 61st R.S. (1969) | |
| Online version: | View document [142 pages File size: 12,453 kb] | |
* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.
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