Tex. Educ. Code § 51.9193 · Subchapter Z. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
REQUIRED POSTING OF MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(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:
(1) create a web page on the institution's Internet website that:
(A) is dedicated solely to information regarding the mental health resources available to students at the institution, regardless of whether the resources are provided by the institution; and
(B) includes the address of the nearest local mental health authority; and
(2) maintain a conspicuous link on the institution's Internet website home page to the web page described by Subdivision (1).
(d) Not later than August 1 of each year, the president or the president's designee of an institution to which this section applies shall certify to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board the institution's compliance with this section.
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History
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 452 (H.B. 197), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2015.
Amended by:
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 278 (H.B. 2895), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.
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