Bill Text: TX HB4110 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to grants to establish or expand community collaboratives for services to persons experiencing homelessness or mental illness and county government planning for community collaboratives.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-12 - Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm. [HB4110 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB4110-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Coleman | H.B. No. 4110 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4110: | |||
By: Stickland | C.S.H.B. No. 4110 |
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relating to grants to establish or expand community collaboratives | ||
for services to persons experiencing homelessness or mental illness | ||
and county government planning for community collaboratives. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 539.002, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 539.002. GRANTS FOR ESTABLISHMENT AND EXPANSION OF | ||
COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVES. (a) To the extent funds are | ||
appropriated to the department for that purpose, the department | ||
shall make grants to entities, including local governmental | ||
entities, nonprofit community organizations, and faith-based | ||
community organizations, to establish or expand community | ||
collaboratives that bring the public and private sectors together | ||
to provide services to persons experiencing homelessness or [ |
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consideration to entities: | ||
(1) establishing a new collaborative; or | ||
(2) establishing a new collaborative or expanding a | ||
collaborative to serve two or more counties that each have a | ||
population of less than 100,000. | ||
(b) The department shall require each entity awarded a grant | ||
under this section to: | ||
(1) leverage additional funding from private sources | ||
in an amount that is at least equal to the amount of the grant | ||
awarded under this section; [ |
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(2) provide evidence of significant coordination and | ||
collaboration between the entity, local mental health authorities, | ||
municipalities, local law enforcement agencies, and other | ||
community stakeholders in establishing or expanding a community | ||
collaborative funded by a grant awarded under this section; and | ||
(3) provide evidence of a local law enforcement policy | ||
to divert appropriate persons from jails or other detention | ||
facilities to an entity affiliated with a community collaborative | ||
for services. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 539, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Section 539.0051 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 539.0051. PLAN REQUIRED FOR CERTAIN COMMUNITY | ||
COLLABORATIVES. (a) The governing body of a county shall develop | ||
and make public a plan detailing: | ||
(1) how local mental health authorities, | ||
municipalities, local law enforcement agencies, and other | ||
community stakeholders in the county could coordinate to establish | ||
or expand a community collaborative to accomplish the goals of | ||
Section 539.002; | ||
(2) how entities in the county may leverage funding | ||
from private sources to accomplish the goals of Section 539.002 | ||
through the formation or expansion of a community collaborative; | ||
and | ||
(3) how the formation or expansion of a community | ||
collaborative could establish or support resources or services to | ||
help local law enforcement agencies to divert persons who have been | ||
arrested to appropriate mental health care. | ||
(b) The governing bodies of two or more counties that each | ||
have a population of less than 100,000 may comply with Subsection | ||
(a) by developing and making public a joint plan that otherwise | ||
complies with Subsection (a). | ||
(c) The governing body of a county in which an entity that | ||
received a grant under Section 539.002 before September 1, 2017, is | ||
located is not required to develop a plan under Subsection (a). | ||
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. |