Bill Text: TX HB2446 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to a report on the consolidation of the health and human services system, including advisory committees within the system, and the re-creation of the Texas system of care framework.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-22 - Referred to Human Services [HB2446 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB2446-Introduced.html
  85R8598 LED-D
 
  By: Price H.B. No. 2446
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a report on the consolidation of the health and human
  services system, including advisory committees within the system,
  and the re-creation of the Texas system of care framework.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 531.251, Government Code, is reenacted
  to read as follows:
         Sec. 531.251.  TEXAS SYSTEM OF CARE FRAMEWORK. (a)  In this
  section:
               (1)  "Minor" means an individual younger than 18 years
  of age.
               (2)  "Serious emotional disturbance" means a mental,
  behavioral, or emotional disorder of sufficient duration to result
  in functional impairment that substantially interferes with or
  limits a person's role or ability to function in family, school, or
  community activities.
               (3)  "System of care framework" means a framework for
  collaboration among state agencies, minors who have a serious
  emotional disturbance or are at risk of developing a serious
  emotional disturbance, and the families of those minors that
  improves access to services and delivers effective community-based
  services that are family-driven, youth- or young adult-guided, and
  culturally and linguistically competent.
         (b)  The commission shall implement a system of care
  framework to develop local mental health systems of care in
  communities for minors who are receiving residential mental health
  services and supports or inpatient mental health hospitalization,
  have or are at risk of developing a serious emotional disturbance,
  or are at risk of being removed from the minor's home and placed in a
  more restrictive environment to receive mental health services and
  supports, including an inpatient mental health hospital, a
  residential treatment facility, or a facility or program operated
  by the Department of Family and Protective Services or an agency
  that is part of the juvenile justice system.
         (c)  The commission shall:
               (1)  maintain a comprehensive plan for the delivery of
  mental health services and supports to a minor and a minor's family
  using a system of care framework, including best practices in the
  financing, administration, governance, and delivery of those
  services;
               (2)  enter memoranda of understanding with the
  Department of State Health Services, the Department of Family and
  Protective Services, the Texas Education Agency, the Texas Juvenile
  Justice Department, and the Texas Correctional Office on Offenders
  with Medical or Mental Impairments that specify the roles and
  responsibilities of each agency in implementing the comprehensive
  plan described by Subdivision (1);
               (3)  identify appropriate local, state, and federal
  funding sources to finance infrastructure and mental health
  services and supports needed to support state and local system of
  care framework efforts;
               (4)  develop an evaluation system to measure
  cross-system performance and outcomes of state and local system of
  care framework efforts; and
               (5)  in implementing the provisions of this section,
  consult with stakeholders, including:
                     (A)  minors who have or are at risk of developing a
  serious emotional disturbance or young adults who received mental
  health services and supports as a minor with or at risk of
  developing a serious emotional disturbance; and
                     (B)  family members of those minors or young
  adults.
         SECTION 2.  Not later than July 31, 2018, the executive
  commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall
  submit to the Health and Human Services Transition Legislative
  Oversight Committee a report that includes:
               (1)  the latest information available on the
  commission's progress in transferring and consolidating the
  administrative support services functions of the health and human
  services system as mandated by Subchapter A-1, Chapter 531,
  Government Code; and
               (2)  recommendations on:
                     (A)  whether to abolish each statutory advisory
  committee that considers issues related to the health and human
  services system; and
                     (B)  for an advisory committee for which
  abolishment is recommended, whether to reestablish the advisory
  committee by rule, consolidate the advisory committee with another
  advisory committee, or permanently discontinue the advisory
  committee in any form.
         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 September 1, 2017.
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