Bill Text: TX HB470 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an acute psychiatric bed registry to list available beds for the inpatient psychiatric treatment of certain individuals.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-23 - Referred to Public Health [HB470 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB470-Introduced.html
88R1233 JG-D | ||
By: Thierry | H.B. No. 470 |
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relating to an acute psychiatric bed registry to list available | ||
beds for the inpatient psychiatric treatment of certain | ||
individuals. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 7, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Chapter 535 to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 535. ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC BED REGISTRY IN CERTAIN COUNTIES | ||
Sec. 535.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "inpatient | ||
mental health facility" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
571.003. | ||
Sec. 535.002. APPLICABILITY. This chapter applies only to | ||
counties with a population of four million or more. | ||
Sec. 535.003. DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF REGISTRY. | ||
(a) The commission shall develop and administer an Internet-based | ||
and searchable acute psychiatric bed registry to collect, | ||
aggregate, and display information on available beds at inpatient | ||
mental health facilities located in a county to which this chapter | ||
applies for the inpatient psychiatric treatment of individuals. | ||
(b) For each inpatient mental health facility, the acute | ||
psychiatric bed registry must list: | ||
(1) the name and contact information of the facility; | ||
(2) the number of available beds; | ||
(3) the type of individual who may be admitted; | ||
(4) the level of security provided; and | ||
(5) any other information that may be necessary to | ||
identify appropriate beds for the inpatient psychiatric treatment | ||
of individuals. | ||
(c) The commission shall make the acute psychiatric bed | ||
registry available to law enforcement agencies, community service | ||
boards, mental health facilities, public and private residential | ||
crisis stabilization units, emergency care facilities, and | ||
emergency care providers located in a county to which this chapter | ||
applies. The commission may make the registry available to any | ||
other person the commission considers appropriate. | ||
(d) The commission may contract with any person the | ||
commission considers appropriate to develop and administer the | ||
acute psychiatric bed registry. | ||
Sec. 535.004. INPATIENT MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY | ||
REQUIREMENTS. (a) An inpatient mental health facility located in | ||
a county to which this chapter applies shall submit to the | ||
commission information for the acute psychiatric bed registry as | ||
required by the commission and review the information and confirm | ||
the information's accuracy to the commission at least once daily | ||
and whenever there is a change in bed availability at the facility. | ||
(b) An inpatient mental health facility located in a county | ||
to which this chapter applies shall designate an employee or | ||
employees as necessary to: | ||
(1) submit to the commission the information required | ||
under Subsection (a) and review the information as required by that | ||
subsection; and | ||
(2) serve as a contact for questions about the | ||
information submitted. | ||
Sec. 535.005. GIFTS, GRANTS, AND DONATIONS. The commission | ||
may accept gifts, grants, or donations from a public or private | ||
source to carry out this chapter. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2024, the Health and | ||
Human Services Commission shall establish the acute psychiatric bed | ||
registry required by Chapter 535, Health and Safety Code, as added | ||
by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |