Bill Text: TX HB898 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an interagency grant program to support and sustain the operations of community recovery organizations.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-01 - Referred to Public Health [HB898 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB898-Introduced.html
| 87R2875 JG-D | ||
| By: White | H.B. No. 898 | |
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| relating to an interagency grant program to support and sustain the | ||
| operations of community recovery organizations. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 53 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 53. COMMUNITY RECOVERY ORGANIZATION GRANT PROGRAM | ||
| Sec. 53.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Community recovery organization" means a | ||
| nonprofit organization that: | ||
| (A) mobilizes resources inside and outside of a | ||
| local community to increase the prevalence and quality of long-term | ||
| recovery for individuals with a substance use or mental health | ||
| condition and their affected family members; | ||
| (B) is governed by members of the local | ||
| community: | ||
| (i) at least 51 percent of whom identify as | ||
| an individual recovering from a substance use or mental health | ||
| condition; and | ||
| (ii) the remainder of whom identify as an | ||
| affected family member of an individual recovering from a substance | ||
| use or mental health condition; and | ||
| (C) aligns with applicable national best | ||
| practices recognized by the commission. | ||
| (2) "Grant program" means the community recovery | ||
| organization grant program established under this chapter. | ||
| Sec. 53.002. ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF GRANT | ||
| PROGRAM. (a) The community recovery organization grant program is | ||
| established as an interagency grant program to provide grants to | ||
| community recovery organizations to support and sustain the | ||
| operations of the organizations. | ||
| (b) The commission shall serve as the administrator of the | ||
| grant program. The grant program consists of the following | ||
| additional state agencies: | ||
| (1) the department; | ||
| (2) the Department of Family and Protective Services; | ||
| (3) the Texas Education Agency; | ||
| (4) the Department of Agriculture; | ||
| (5) the Texas Department of Housing and Community | ||
| Affairs; | ||
| (6) the Texas Department of Criminal Justice; | ||
| (7) the Texas Juvenile Justice Department; | ||
| (8) the Texas Veterans Commission; and | ||
| (9) the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. | ||
| (c) The commission may provide a grant to a community | ||
| recovery organization only in accordance with a contract between | ||
| the commission and the community recovery organization. The | ||
| contract must include provisions under which the commission is | ||
| granted sufficient control to ensure the public purpose of | ||
| substance use or mental health recovery is accomplished and the | ||
| state receives the return benefit. | ||
| Sec. 53.003. FUNDING. (a) Not later than September 1 of | ||
| each even-numbered year, the commission and each state agency | ||
| listed under Section 53.002(b) shall identify available resources | ||
| under the agency's control that may be used to fund and provide | ||
| grants to community recovery organizations under the grant program. | ||
| (b) In addition to the resources identified under | ||
| Subsection (a) and any money appropriated by the legislature for | ||
| the grant program, the commission may solicit and accept gifts, | ||
| grants, or donations from any source to administer and provide | ||
| grants to community recovery organizations under the grant program. | ||
| Sec. 53.004. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING. The executive | ||
| commissioner of the commission and the executive head of each state | ||
| agency listed under Section 53.002(b) with rulemaking authority | ||
| each by rule shall adopt a memorandum of understanding that defines | ||
| the commission's and each other agency's responsibilities with | ||
| respect to administering and operating the grant program. | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
| Services Commission and the executive head of each state agency | ||
| listed under Section 53.002(b), Health and Safety Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, with rulemaking authority by rule shall adopt the | ||
| memorandum of understanding required by Section 53.004, Health and | ||
| Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
