Bill Text: TX SB1677 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment and administration of Health and Human Services Commission programs providing mental health services to certain individuals in this state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB1677 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1677-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1677 | ||
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| relating to the establishment and administration of Health and | ||
| Human Services Commission programs providing mental health | ||
| services to certain individuals in this state. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 531.0991, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (e-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (e-1) If the commission is appropriated money to implement | ||
| this section for a state fiscal year in an amount that exceeds the | ||
| total amount of grants awarded under this section in the previous | ||
| state fiscal year, the commission, in selecting grant recipients | ||
| for the excess amount, must accept applications or proposals from | ||
| applicants that were not selected as grant recipients under this | ||
| section in the previous state fiscal year or applicants that were | ||
| selected as grant recipients but require additional funding for the | ||
| recipient's community mental health program for purposes of this | ||
| section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 531.0993, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (d-1) and (d-2) to read as follows: | ||
| (d-1) The commission shall establish procedures to assist a | ||
| community collaborative that includes a county with a population of | ||
| less than 250,000 with submission of a petition under Subsection | ||
| (d). | ||
| (d-2) If the commission is appropriated money to implement | ||
| this section for a state fiscal year in an amount that exceeds the | ||
| total amount of grants awarded under this section in the previous | ||
| state fiscal year, the commission, in selecting grant recipients | ||
| for the excess amount, must accept petitions from community | ||
| collaboratives that were not selected as grant recipients under | ||
| this section in the previous state fiscal year or collaboratives | ||
| that were selected as grant recipients in the previous state fiscal | ||
| year but require additional funding for the recipient's | ||
| collaborative for purposes of this section. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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) "Governmental entity" means this state, a | ||
| political subdivision of this state, or an agency of this state or a | ||
| political subdivision of this state. | ||
| (2) "Local mental health authority" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 531.002, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (3) "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 or governmental | ||
| entities 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 or governmental entity seeking to contract | ||
| with the commission under this section. | ||
| (d) This section may not be construed to affect a grant | ||
| program established by the commission under this code. | ||
| SECTION 4. (a) The state auditor's office shall conduct an | ||
| audit of the inmates in county jails who are waiting for a forensic | ||
| hospital bed for the provision of competency restoration services. | ||
| The audit must identify any issues and inefficiencies in the | ||
| commitment process. | ||
| (b) Not later than December 1, 2024, the state auditor shall | ||
| prepare a report of the audit conducted under Subsection (a) of this | ||
| section and publish the report on the state auditor's Internet | ||
| website. The report must include: | ||
| (1) a review of the history and status of the waitlist | ||
| beginning September 2018 through the most current year for which | ||
| information is available; | ||
| (2) any disparities in treatment in the forensic | ||
| commitment process based on race, gender, ethnicity, or age; and | ||
| (3) any other analysis the state auditor determines | ||
| appropriate. | ||
| (c) This section expires September 1, 2025. | ||
| SECTION 5. 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 | ||
| Sections 531.0993(d-1) and 531.09936, Government Code, as added by | ||
| this Act. | ||
| SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1677 passed the Senate on | ||
| May 4, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; | ||
| May 26, 2023, Senate refused to concur in House amendments and | ||
| requested appointment of Conference Committee; May 26, 2023, House | ||
| granted request of the Senate; May 28, 2023, Senate adopted | ||
| Conference Committee Report by the following vote: Yeas 29, | ||
| Nays 2. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1677 passed the House, with | ||
| amendments, on May 19, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 142, | ||
| Nays 0, two present not voting; May 26, 2023, House granted request | ||
| of the Senate for appointment of Conference Committee; | ||
| May 28, 2023, House adopted Conference Committee Report by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 134, Nays 8, two present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
