Bill Text: TX HB35 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to extending a local behavioral health intervention pilot project.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB35 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB35-Comm_Sub.html
 
 
  By: Menendez (Senate Sponsor - Van de Putte) H.B. No. 35
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 2011;
  April 20, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
  and Human Services; May 6, 2011, reported favorably by the
  following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 6, 2011, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to extending a local behavioral health intervention pilot
  project.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 1(f) and (j), Chapter 356 (H.B. 1232),
  Acts of the 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, are amended to
  read as follows:
         (f)  Not later than December 1, 2012 [2010], the local mental
  health authority involved in the pilot project shall submit a
  report to the department regarding the local behavioral health
  intervention pilot project, including:
               (1)  a comprehensive analysis of the efficacy of the
  project; and
               (2)  the local authority's findings and
  recommendations.
         (j)  This Act expires September 1, 2013 [2011].
         SECTION 2.  (a) It is the intent of the legislature that
  amendments to Chapter 356 (H.B. 1232), Acts of the 81st
  Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, made by this Act and any other
  amendments to that chapter made by another Act of the 82nd
  Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, shall be harmonized, if
  possible, as provided by Section 311.025(b), Government Code, so
  that effect may be given to each amendment.
         (b)  If an amendment to Chapter 356 (H.B. 1232), Acts of the
  81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, made by this Act and an
  amendment to that chapter made by another Act of the 82nd
  Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, are irreconcilable, it is the
  intent of the legislature that the amendment to Chapter 356 (H.B.
  1232), Acts of the 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, made by
  this Act prevail, regardless of the relative effective dates or
  dates of enactment of the irreconcilable amendments.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
 
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