Bill Text: TX SB1891 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the delivery of mental health services and supports under a system of care framework to minors who have or are at risk of developing a serious emotional disturbance or who are at risk of being removed from the minor's home.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-25 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1891 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1891-Introduced.html
84R8925 GCB-F | ||
By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 1891 |
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relating to the delivery of mental health services and supports | ||
under a system of care framework to minors who have or are at risk of | ||
developing a serious emotional disturbance or who are at risk of | ||
being removed from the minor's home. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 531.251, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.251. TEXAS SYSTEM OF CARE FRAMEWORK [ |
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(a) In this section: | ||
(1) "Minor" means an individual younger than 18 years | ||
of age. | ||
(2) "Serious emotional disturbance" means a mental, | ||
behavioral, or emotional disorder of sufficient duration to result | ||
in functional impairment that substantially interferes with or | ||
limits a person's role or ability to function in family, school, or | ||
community activities. | ||
(3) "System of care framework" means a framework for | ||
collaboration among state agencies, minors who have a serious | ||
emotional disturbance or are at risk of developing a serious | ||
emotional disturbance, and the families of those minors that | ||
improves access to services and delivers effective community-based | ||
services that are family-driven, youth- or young adult-guided, and | ||
culturally and linguistically competent. | ||
(b) The commission shall implement [ |
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care framework to develop local mental health systems of care in | ||
communities for minors who are receiving residential mental health | ||
services and supports or inpatient mental health hospitalization, | ||
have or are at risk of developing a serious emotional disturbance, | ||
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placed in a more restrictive environment to receive mental health | ||
services and supports, including an inpatient mental health | ||
hospital, a residential treatment facility, or a facility or | ||
program operated by the Department of Family and Protective | ||
Services or an agency that is part of the juvenile justice system. | ||
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(1) maintain a comprehensive plan for the delivery of | ||
mental health services and supports to a minor and a minor's family | ||
using a system of care framework, including best practices in the | ||
financing, administration, governance, and delivery of those | ||
services; | ||
(2) enter memoranda of understanding with the | ||
Department of State Health Services, the Department of Family and | ||
Protective Services, the Texas Education Agency, the Texas Juvenile | ||
Justice Department, and the Texas Correctional Office on Offenders | ||
with Medical or Mental Impairments that specify the roles and | ||
responsibilities of each agency in implementing the comprehensive | ||
plan described by Subdivision (1) [ |
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(3) identify appropriate local, state, and federal | ||
funding sources to finance infrastructure and mental health | ||
services and supports needed to support state and local system of | ||
care framework efforts; [ |
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(4) develop an evaluation system to measure | ||
cross-system performance and outcomes of state and local system of | ||
care framework efforts; and | ||
(5) in implementing the provisions of this section, | ||
consult with stakeholders, including: | ||
(A) minors who have or are at risk of developing a | ||
serious emotional disturbance or young adults who received mental | ||
health services and supports as a minor with or at risk of | ||
developing a serious emotional disturbance; and | ||
(B) family members of those minors or young | ||
adults. | ||
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SECTION 2. Section 531.255, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.255. EVALUATION. [ |
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implementation of a system of care framework under Section 531.251 | ||
and adopt rules as necessary to facilitate or adjust that | ||
implementation [ |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |