Bill Text: TX HJR5 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the dedication of certain sales and use tax revenue to the Texas mental and behavioral health research fund established to fund research, treatment, and access to services in this state for behavioral health, mental health, and substance use and addiction issues.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-22 - Placed on intent calendar [HJR5 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HJR5-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Thompson of Harris, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst) | H.J.R. No. 5 | |
| (In the Senate - Received from the House April 16, 2019; | ||
| May 1, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance; | ||
| May 19, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
| Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 2; May 19, 2019, | ||
| sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.J.R. No. 5 | By: Kolkhorst | |
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| proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the dedication | ||
| of certain sales and use tax revenue to the Texas mental and | ||
| behavioral health research fund established to fund research, | ||
| treatment, and access to services in this state for behavioral | ||
| health, mental health, and substance use and addiction issues. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Article III, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 68 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 68. The Texas mental and behavioral health research | ||
| fund is established in the state treasury and consists of money | ||
| transferred or deposited to the fund as provided by Section 7-c, | ||
| Article VIII, of this constitution, appropriations made to the fund | ||
| by the legislature, and all interest, dividends, and other income | ||
| of the fund. Money from the fund may be used as provided by general | ||
| law for the purpose of funding programs: | ||
| (1) to research behavioral health issues generally, | ||
| including causes of behavioral health issues, public health trends | ||
| and strategies regarding behavioral health issues, and new | ||
| behavioral health treatments, interventions, and other solutions; | ||
| (2) to research substance use and addiction issues, | ||
| including genetic determinates of addiction, identification of and | ||
| mitigation of substance use and addiction risk factors, addiction | ||
| recovery, and prescription practices; | ||
| (3) to research behavioral health and mental health | ||
| issues affecting children and adolescents, including unidentified | ||
| and untreated mental illness, involvement in the juvenile justice | ||
| system, and suicide prevention; and | ||
| (4) to address the shortage of mental health | ||
| professionals in this state, including programs to increase access | ||
| to mental health professionals in this state, programs to increase | ||
| the use of telemedicine in the treatment of behavioral health or | ||
| mental health issues, and programs to provide loan repayment | ||
| assistance and other funding for mental health professionals, | ||
| including physicians and advanced practice nurses trained in the | ||
| prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness in children | ||
| and adolescents. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 7-c, Article VIII, Texas Constitution, | ||
| is amended by adding Subsections (b-1), (d-1), and (d-2) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (b-1) Subject to Subsections (d-1) and (d-2) of this | ||
| section, in each state fiscal year, the comptroller of public | ||
| accounts shall deposit to the credit of the Texas mental and | ||
| behavioral health research fund $100 million of the net revenue | ||
| derived from the imposition of the state sales and use tax on the | ||
| sale, storage, use, or other consumption in this state of taxable | ||
| items under Chapter 151, Tax Code, or its successor, that exceeds | ||
| the amount of $35.04 billion of that revenue coming into the | ||
| treasury for the state fiscal year beginning September 1, 2019, and | ||
| $36.16 billion of that revenue coming into the state treasury in | ||
| each subsequent state fiscal year. | ||
| (d-1) The legislature by adoption of a resolution approved | ||
| by a record vote of two-thirds of the members of each house of the | ||
| legislature may direct the comptroller of public accounts to reduce | ||
| the amount of money deposited to the credit of the Texas mental and | ||
| behavioral health research fund under Subsection (b-1) of this | ||
| section. The comptroller may be directed to make that reduction | ||
| only: | ||
| (1) in the state fiscal year in which the resolution is | ||
| adopted, or in either of the following two state fiscal years; and | ||
| (2) by an amount or percentage that does not result in | ||
| a reduction of more than 50 percent of the amount that would | ||
| otherwise be deposited to the fund in the affected state fiscal year | ||
| under Subsection (b-1) of this section. | ||
| (d-2) The duty of the comptroller of public accounts to make | ||
| a deposit under Subsection (b-1) of this section expires August 31, | ||
| 2030. | ||
| SECTION 3. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
| submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 5, 2019. | ||
| The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
| proposition: "The constitutional amendment providing for the | ||
| dedication of certain sales and use tax revenue to the Texas mental | ||
| and behavioral health research fund established to fund research, | ||
| treatment, and access to services in this state for behavioral | ||
| health, mental health, and substance use and addiction issues." | ||
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