Bill Text: TX HB308 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 308 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the provision of certain services by the Kerrville State Hospital to a crisis stabilization unit operated on hospital grounds.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-25 - Referred to Public Health [HB308 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB308-Introduced.html

	87R943 EAS-F

	By: Murr	H.B. No. 308



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the provision of certain services by the Kerrville
	State Hospital to a crisis stabilization unit operated on hospital
	grounds.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 551.009(c), Health and Safety Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(c) The [~~local mental health authority shall contract with~~]
	Kerrville State Hospital shall [to] provide food service, laundry
	service, maintenance service, utility service, and lawn care at no
	cost to the local mental health authority operating a crisis
	stabilization unit on the grounds of the Kerrville State Hospital
	as provided by this section.
	SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date
	of this Act, the Kerrville State Hospital and a local mental health
	authority operating a crisis stabilization unit on the grounds of
	the hospital shall revise any contract involving the provision of
	services described by Section 551.009(c), Health and Safety Code,
	as amended by this Act, as necessary to comply with that provision
	as amended.
	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, 2021.