Bill Text: TX SB2467 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment and operation of a mobile narcotic drug treatment unit by a narcotic drug treatment program facility; authorizing a fee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB2467 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2467-Introduced.html
| By: Eckhardt | S.B. No. 2467 | |
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| relating to the establishment and operation of a mobile narcotic | ||
| drug treatment unit by a narcotic drug treatment program facility; | ||
| authorizing a fee. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 466, Health and Safety Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subchapter B-1 to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER B-1. MOBILE NARCOTIC DRUG TREATMENT UNITS | ||
| Sec. 466.031. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "mobile | ||
| unit" means a motor vehicle that is operated by a narcotic drug | ||
| treatment program facility to provide services under the narcotic | ||
| drug treatment program. | ||
| Sec. 466.032. MOBILE UNIT REGISTRATION. (a) A facility | ||
| that holds a permit under this chapter may operate one or more | ||
| mobile units to provide services under a narcotic drug treatment | ||
| program. | ||
| (b) A facility must register each mobile unit with the | ||
| department but is not required to obtain a separate permit for a | ||
| mobile unit. | ||
| (c) The executive commissioner may adopt rules setting a fee | ||
| for registration of a mobile unit under this section. The fee must | ||
| be in an amount sufficient to recover the actual expenditures of | ||
| state funds by the department to register and inspect the mobile | ||
| units. | ||
| (d) A mobile unit registered under this section is subject to | ||
| inspection in the same manner as a facility inspection provided by | ||
| Section 466.025. | ||
| Sec. 466.033. SERVICES. (a) Notwithstanding any other | ||
| provision of this chapter or any rule adopted under this chapter, a | ||
| mobile unit may provide administrative, medical, and psychological | ||
| service that are related to the narcotic drug treatment program's | ||
| goals, including: | ||
| (1) case management; | ||
| (2) counseling; and | ||
| (3) physician examinations. | ||
| (b) The mobile unit may collect samples, including but not | ||
| limited to blood, saliva, or urine, for the purpose of narcotic drug | ||
| testing or analysis. | ||
| (c) The mobile unit may dispense or administer an approved | ||
| narcotic drug for the maintenance or detoxification of persons with | ||
| a drug dependency as part of a narcotic drug program permitted by | ||
| the department. | ||
| (d) The mobile unit may provide the services described by | ||
| Subsection (a) regardless of whether those services are provided or | ||
| authorized to be provided in the narcotic drug treatment program's | ||
| permitted facility. | ||
| Sec. 466.034. RULES. The executive commissioner may not | ||
| adopt a rule that limits a mobile unit to assisting or treating only | ||
| established or stabilized patients. | ||
| 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 the | ||
| changes in law made by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
