Bill Text: TX SB1390 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a grant program for municipal or county mental health crisis response team programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-15 - Co-author authorized [SB1390 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1390-Introduced.html
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| By: West | S.B. No. 1390 | |
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| relating to a grant program for municipal or county mental health | ||
| crisis response team programs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 531.09916 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.09916. GRANT PROGRAM FOR MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS | ||
| RESPONSE TEAM PROGRAMS. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Crisis intervention team" means a group of mental | ||
| health professionals who provide services to persons experiencing a | ||
| mental health crisis. | ||
| (2) "Mental health crisis response team" means a | ||
| crisis intervention team or a multidisciplinary crisis response | ||
| team. | ||
| (3) "Mental health crisis response team program" means | ||
| a municipal or county program operated under a grant provided under | ||
| this section. | ||
| (4) "Multidisciplinary crisis response team" means a | ||
| group composed of three or more persons that includes at least one | ||
| paramedic, one law enforcement officer, and one mental health | ||
| professional, who work together to provide services to persons | ||
| experiencing a mental health crisis. | ||
| (b) The executive commissioner shall establish and | ||
| administer a grant program to grant money to municipalities and | ||
| counties for the purpose of operating a mental health crisis | ||
| response team program to: | ||
| (1) operate one or more mental health crisis response | ||
| teams in the municipality or county; and | ||
| (2) employ one or more mental health professionals to: | ||
| (A) screen calls made to a 9-1-1 emergency call | ||
| center dispatcher for law enforcement or emergency medical | ||
| assistance; | ||
| (B) determine whether to dispatch a mental health | ||
| crisis response team to service a call; and | ||
| (C) consult with and provide information to the | ||
| dispatched mental health crisis response team. | ||
| (c) A grant application from a municipality or county to the | ||
| commission must be submitted on a form prescribed by the commission | ||
| and include a statement from the governing body of the municipality | ||
| or county regarding the municipal or county proposal to establish a | ||
| mental health crisis response team program. The application must | ||
| require the inclusion of the results of an assessment conducted to | ||
| determine: | ||
| (1) the number of mental health-related calls for | ||
| assistance received by the municipality's or county's 9-1-1 | ||
| emergency call center; | ||
| (2) the number of paramedics and mental health | ||
| professionals available to serve on a municipality's or county's | ||
| mental health crisis response team; and | ||
| (3) the municipality's or county's capability to | ||
| accurately collect and report information concerning: | ||
| (A) the frequency and outcomes of mental | ||
| health-related calls for assistance; and | ||
| (B) the number of calls for assistance primarily | ||
| identified as involving a criminal offense but that also involved a | ||
| demonstrated need for mental health intervention, services, crisis | ||
| referrals, or de-escalation for the person making the call or for a | ||
| person who was the subject of a call made by another. | ||
| (d) Two or more political subdivisions eligible to apply for | ||
| a grant under this section may enter an agreement to: | ||
| (1) jointly apply for a grant under this section; and | ||
| (2) if awarded a grant, jointly operate a regional | ||
| mental health crisis response team to serve a region composed of | ||
| territory of those political subdivisions. | ||
| (e) In addition to funding received under a grant under this | ||
| section, a municipality or county may contribute local funds to the | ||
| operation of the municipality's or county's mobile crisis response | ||
| team program, including a team operated under an agreement under | ||
| Subsection (d). | ||
| (f) The commission may use any available state and federal | ||
| money and may accept gifts, grants, and donations from any source | ||
| for the purpose of providing grants under this section. | ||
| (g) The executive commissioner shall adopt all rules | ||
| necessary for the establishment of the grant program 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 531.09916, Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
