Bill Text: TX HB2401 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of community-based services to individuals who have or may have mental illness.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB2401 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2401-Comm_Sub.html
83R26941 AED-F | |||
By: McClendon, Rose, Naishtat, et al. | H.B. No. 2401 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2401: | |||
By: Naishtat | C.S.H.B. No. 2401 |
|
||
|
||
relating to the provision of community-based services to | ||
individuals who have or may have mental illness. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 534.053, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) The department shall ensure that, at a minimum, the | ||
following services are available in each service area: | ||
(1) 24-hour emergency screening and rapid crisis | ||
stabilization services; | ||
(2) community-based crisis residential services or | ||
hospitalization; | ||
(3) community-based assessments, including the | ||
development of interdisciplinary treatment plans and diagnosis and | ||
evaluation services; | ||
(4) family support services, including respite care; | ||
(5) case management services; | ||
(6) medication-related services, including medication | ||
clinics, laboratory monitoring, medication education, mental | ||
health maintenance education, and the provision of medication; | ||
[ |
||
(7) psychosocial rehabilitation programs, including | ||
social support activities, independent living skills, and | ||
vocational training; and | ||
(8) community-based alternatives to inpatient | ||
hospitalization. | ||
(d) Notwithstanding any other law, the department shall | ||
ensure the availability of appropriate and timely services designed | ||
to meet acute mental health placement needs of patients in order to | ||
reduce a patient's acute symptoms of mental illness and to prevent a | ||
patient's admission to an inpatient mental health facility, as | ||
defined by Section 571.003. The available services must include at | ||
least one of the following: | ||
(1) crisis stabilization services; | ||
(2) short-term residential treatment, respite care, | ||
or extended observation services; and | ||
(3) medical and nursing services to address the | ||
patient's mental health condition or presenting symptoms. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 534, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 534.0531 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 534.0531. FUNDING FOR COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES. The | ||
department shall provide funding for the cost of ensuring the | ||
availability in each service area of community-based alternatives | ||
to inpatient hospitalization to the extent those costs are not paid | ||
from the delivery system reform incentive payments received under | ||
the Texas Health Care Transformation and Quality Improvement | ||
Program 1115 waiver. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 534.054, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (b) to read as follows: | ||
(b) The department shall contract with a local mental health | ||
authority to provide programs designed to make community-based | ||
alternatives accessible and available in order to avert or mitigate | ||
the need for inpatient hospitalization. | ||
SECTION 4. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a | ||
federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, | ||
the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or | ||
authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the | ||
waiver or authorization is granted. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |