STATE LEGISLATURE

This session's biggest mental health bill got killed on a technicality — then resurrected

Senate Bill 10, focused on connecting children to mental health services, was knocked out of contention with a parliamentary maneuver Tuesday night but was revived as an amendment to another bill hours later. It's one of several measures the state's GOP leaders championed in the wake of the deadly shooting last year at Santa Fe High School.

By CASSANDRA POLLOCK, EDGAR WALTERS and ELIZABETH BYRNE, The Texas Tribune
Posted 5/21/19

A major mental health bill prioritized by the state's top leaders as a way to help prevent school shootings was partially revived late Tuesday night hours after it appeared to have been abruptly killed...

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