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Read. Follow. Verify.Texas directs Health and Human Services to coordinate disaster mental health response and deploy crisis teams
Last action · August 21, 2025: FiledSponsor: Morales Shaw
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What This Bill Proposed
The Health and Human Services Commission and the Texas Division of Emergency Management are required to coordinate statewide disaster behavioral health preparedness, maintain a personnel registry, and deploy crisis counseling services within specified timeframes following disaster declarations.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Health and Human Services Commission
The commission must designate coordination staff, manage federal grants, maintain a personnel registry, and deploy assessment teams within 24 hours of notification.
Texas Division of Emergency Management
The division must jointly develop integrated disaster response protocols and communication systems with the commission and notify them of potential behavioral health needs.
Local mental health authorities
Local authorities must include disaster behavioral health components in emergency plans, maintain personnel contact information, and pre-identify vulnerable populations.
Disaster survivors
Survivors receive crisis counseling and psychological first aid at no cost following disaster declarations.
Key Facts
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · introduced in the House.
Procedural history
1 action- Aug 21, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
Version history
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Formalized Mental Health Integration in Emergency Management
The bill codifies a structured partnership between emergency management and health agencies, establishing mandatory deployment timelines and local preparedness planning.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 75)
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
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