Bills › 90th General Assembly
Providing for behavioral health resource coordinators in middle and high schools
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 1, 2024
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Middle and high schools, including private schools, must assign a specific staff member to act as a behavioral health resource coordinator. This person helps students and employees find mental health resources and manages programs to improve mental health access at the school. State education agencies will support these coordinators by sharing helpful information and best practices.1
Read the official explanation
This bill requires a school board and the authorities in charge of an accredited nonpublic school that is a middle or high school to designate an employee of each middle school and high school as a behavioral health resource coordinator for the school. The bill provides duties of behavioral health resource coordinators, including but not limited to providing information to students and school employees regarding mental health resources available at the school and overseeing and serving as a point of contact for any activities or initiatives to improve or provide access to mental health resources to students and school employees at the school. The bill requires area education agencies and the department of education to provide assistance to behavioral health resource coordinators in carrying out their duties and disseminate best practices regarding mental health resources to behavioral health resource coordinators on a statewide basis.