Text of section effective on April 01, 2025
Sec. 547.0157.  SUICIDE PREVENTION SUBCOMMITTEE; SUICIDE DATA REPORTS. (a) The council shall create a suicide prevention subcommittee to focus on statewide suicide prevention efforts using information collected by the council from available sources of suicide data reports.  The suicide prevention subcommittee shall establish guidelines for the frequent use of those reports in carrying out the council's purpose under this subchapter.
(b)  The suicide prevention subcommittee shall establish a method for identifying how suicide data reports are used to make policy.
(c)  Public or private entities that collect information regarding suicide and suicide prevention may provide suicide data reports to commission staff the executive commissioner designates to receive those reports.
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 769 (H.B. 4611), Sec. 1.01, eff. April 1, 2025.