Bill Text: TX HB4467 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment or expansion of behavioral health centers or jail diversion centers in certain local mental health authority service areas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-21 - Referred to Corrections [HB4467 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4467-Introduced.html
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By: Price | H.B. No. 4467 |
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relating to the establishment or expansion of behavioral health | ||
centers or jail diversion centers in certain local mental health | ||
authority service areas. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 531.09936 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.09936. ESTABLISHMENT OR EXPANSION OF REGIONAL | ||
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTERS OR JAIL DIVERSION CENTERS. (a) In this | ||
section: | ||
(1) "Local mental health authority" has the meaning | ||
assigned by Section 531.002, Health and Safety Code. | ||
(2) "Nonprofit organization" means an organization | ||
that is exempt from federal income taxation under Section 501(a), | ||
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, by being listed as an exempt entity | ||
under Section 501(c)(3) of that code. | ||
(b) To the extent money is appropriated to the commission | ||
for that purpose, the commission, in cooperation with local mental | ||
health authorities located primarily in rural areas of this state, | ||
shall contract with nonprofit organizations to establish or expand | ||
behavioral health centers or jail diversion centers in the | ||
authorities' local service areas to: | ||
(1) provide additional forensic hospital beds and | ||
competency restoration services; | ||
(2) provide inpatient and outpatient mental health | ||
services to adults and children; and | ||
(3) provide services to reduce recidivism and the | ||
frequency of arrest, incarceration, and emergency detentions among | ||
persons with mental illness in the service areas. | ||
(c) The executive commissioner shall develop criteria for | ||
the evaluation of applications or proposals submitted by a | ||
nonprofit organization seeking to contract with the commission | ||
under this section. | ||
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission shall adopt rules necessary to implement | ||
Section 531.09936, Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |