Bill Text: TX HB1841 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to mental health services development plans as updated by local mental health authority groups.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-11 - Referred to Public Health [HB1841 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1841-Introduced.html
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| By: Lambert | H.B. No. 1841 | |
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| relating to mental health services development plans as updated by | ||
| local mental health authority groups. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 531.0222 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.0222. LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH AUTHORITY GROUP REGIONAL | ||
| PLANNING. (a) In this section, "local mental health authority | ||
| group" means a group of local mental health authorities established | ||
| by the commission under Chapter 963 (S.B. 633), Acts of the 86th | ||
| Legislature, Regular Session, 2019. | ||
| (b) Each local mental health authority group shall meet at | ||
| least quarterly to collaborate on planning and implementing | ||
| regional strategies to reduce: | ||
| (1) costs to local governments of providing services | ||
| to persons experiencing a mental health crisis; | ||
| (2) transportation to mental health facilities of | ||
| persons served by an authority that is a member of the group; | ||
| (3) incarceration of persons with mental illness in | ||
| county jails that are located in an area served by an authority that | ||
| is a member of the group; and | ||
| (4) visits by persons with mental illness at hospital | ||
| emergency rooms located in an area served by an authority that is a | ||
| member of the group. | ||
| (c) Annually, each local mental health authority group | ||
| shall submit to the commission an updated version of the mental | ||
| health services development plan that was initially developed for | ||
| the group under Chapter 963 (S.B. 633), Acts of the 86th | ||
| Legislature, Regular Session, 2019. The group's updated plan must | ||
| include a description of: | ||
| (1) actions taken by the group to implement strategies | ||
| in the plan; and | ||
| (2) new strategies identified by the group to reduce | ||
| the circumstances described by Subsection (b). | ||
| (d) Not later than December 1 of each year, the commission, | ||
| using existing resources, shall produce and publish on its Internet | ||
| website a report containing the most recent version of each mental | ||
| health services development plan submitted by a local mental health | ||
| authority group. | ||
| SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 531.0222, Government | ||
| Code, as added by this Act, a local mental health authority group | ||
| and the Health and Human Services Commission are not required to | ||
| produce or publish a report required by that section before | ||
| December 1, 2022. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
