Bill Text: TX SB415 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to individuals with intellectual disabilities committed to state supported living centers.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-26 - Left pending in committee [SB415 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB415-Introduced.html
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| By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 415 | |
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| relating to individuals with intellectual disabilities committed | ||
| to state supported living centers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 593.052, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (b-1) An order for long-term placement in a residential care | ||
| facility must state that the commitment for care, treatment, and | ||
| training is authorized for not more than 12 months. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 593, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 593.0521 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 593.0521. RENEWAL OF ORDER FOR COMMITMENT. Not later | ||
| than the 30th day before the date a commitment order is to expire | ||
| under Section 593.052, the facility administrator shall notify a | ||
| representative for the local mental retardation authority that | ||
| serves the area in which the facility is located or in which the | ||
| resident will reside after the expiration of the commitment order. | ||
| The notice must include: | ||
| (1) the date the commitment will expire; and | ||
| (2) a request that the local mental retardation | ||
| authority either: | ||
| (A) prepare a transition plan for placing the | ||
| resident in the community served by the authority; or | ||
| (B) file an application to renew an order for | ||
| long-term commitment in a residential care facility. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
