Relating to the Collaborative Task Force on Public School Mental Health Services.

HB 3536 establishes a Collaborative Task Force on Public School Mental Health Services to study how Texas public school districts and charter schools currently provide mental health support. The task force will examine services directly offered to students, parents/families, and school staff; training for educators providing these services; and impacts on metrics like school violence incidents, student suicide rates, referrals to child protective services, emergency mental health detentions, and external mental health referrals. School districts and charter schools must gather and provide data on student enrollment, service recipients, resource availability, and referral patterns to support this study. The bill focuses on collecting existing data to inform future decisions, without creating new funding or mandates. (This is a procedural bill creating a task force, not a policy change.)