Bill Text: TX HB1758 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a grant program and interagency review of resources to support and sustain recovery community organizations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-08 - Referred to Health & Human Services [HB1758 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1758-Introduced.html
86R6568 JG-D | ||
By: White | H.B. No. 1758 |
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relating to a grant program and interagency review of resources to | ||
support and sustain recovery community organizations. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 531.02253 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.02253. RECOVERY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION GRANT | ||
PROGRAM. (a) In this section, "recovery community organization" | ||
means a nonprofit organization that: | ||
(1) mobilizes resources inside and outside of a local | ||
community to increase the prevalence and quality of long-term | ||
recovery for persons with substance use disorder and their family | ||
members; and | ||
(2) is wholly or partly governed by members of the | ||
local community: | ||
(A) at least 40 percent of whom identify as a | ||
person recovering from a substance use disorder; and | ||
(B) at least 40 percent of whom identify as an | ||
affected family member of a person recovering from a substance use | ||
disorder. | ||
(b) The commission shall develop and operate a grant program | ||
to award grants to recovery community organizations to: | ||
(1) establish a network of five recovery community | ||
organizations in geographical areas throughout this state to | ||
provide services in one or more counties with populations of not | ||
more than 100,000; and | ||
(2) assist each recovery community organization | ||
described by Subdivision (1) in developing: | ||
(A) a structure of governance that aligns with | ||
national best practice standards for substance use recovery | ||
services; and | ||
(B) a strategic plan to identify: | ||
(i) available resources within a community | ||
served by the recovery community organization; | ||
(ii) the prioritized needs of a community | ||
served by the recovery community organization; | ||
(iii) recovery support solutions; and | ||
(iv) short- and long-term goals for the | ||
sustained operation of the recovery community organization and the | ||
recovery of persons within a community served by the organization. | ||
(c) The commission may provide a grant under Subsection (b) | ||
only in accordance with a contract between the commission and the | ||
recovery community organization. The contract must include | ||
provisions under which the commission is granted sufficient control | ||
to ensure the public purpose of substance use recovery is | ||
accomplished and the state receives the return benefit. | ||
(d) In addition to money appropriated by the legislature, | ||
the commission may solicit and accept gifts, grants, or donations | ||
from any source to administer or finance the grant program | ||
established under this section. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) In this section, "recovery community | ||
organization" has the meaning assigned by Section 531.02253, | ||
Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
(b) Each of the following state agencies shall identify | ||
available resources under the state agency's control that may be | ||
used to support and sustain recovery community organizations | ||
throughout this state: | ||
(1) the Health and Human Services Commission; | ||
(2) the Department of State Health Services; | ||
(3) the Department of Family and Protective Services; | ||
(4) the Texas Education Agency; | ||
(5) the Department of Agriculture; | ||
(6) the Texas Department of Housing and Community | ||
Affairs; | ||
(7) the Texas Department of Criminal Justice; | ||
(8) the Texas Juvenile Justice Department; | ||
(9) the Texas Veterans Commission; and | ||
(10) the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. | ||
(c) Not later than September 1, 2020, each state agency | ||
described by Subsection (b) of this section shall prepare and | ||
submit to the legislature a written report that outlines the | ||
available resources identified by the state agency under Subsection | ||
(b). | ||
SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission shall adopt rules as necessary to implement | ||
Section 531.02253, Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |