S.B. No. 421

	AN ACT
	relating to the Texas System of Care and the development of local
	mental health systems of care for certain children.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  The heading to Subchapter G-1, Chapter 531,
	Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
	SUBCHAPTER G-1. DEVELOPING LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH [CARE] SYSTEMS OF
	CARE FOR CERTAIN CHILDREN
	SECTION 2.  Section 531.251, Government Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 531.251.  TEXAS SYSTEM OF CARE [PILOT PROJECT]
	CONSORTIUM[; EXPANSION PLAN]. (a)  The commission shall form a
	consortium to have responsibility [develop criteria] for and
	oversight over a state system of care [implement the expansion of
	the Texas Integrated Funding Initiative pilot project and] to
	develop local mental health systems of care [systems] in
	communities for minors who are receiving residential mental health
	services or inpatient mental health hospitalization or who are at
	risk of being removed from the minor's home and placed in a more
	restrictive environment to receive mental health services,
	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 [placement to receive mental
	health services].
	(a-1)  The consortium must include:
	(1)  representatives of the [Texas] Department of State
	[Mental] Health Services [and Mental Retardation], Department of
	Family and Protective [and Regulatory] Services, Health and Human
	Services Commission's Medicaid program, Texas Education Agency,
	[Texas Youth Commission,] Texas Juvenile Justice Department
	[Probation Commission], and Texas Correctional Office on Offenders
	with Medical or Mental Impairments;
	(2)  one youth or young adult who has a serious
	emotional disturbance and has received mental health services and
	supports; or
	(3)  a family member of a youth or young adult described
	by Subdivision (2) [Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse and an
	equal number of family advocates].
	(a-2)  The consortium may coordinate with the Children's
	Policy Council for the purposes of including the representation
	required by Subsections (a-1)(2) and (3).
	(b)  The commission and the consortium shall:
	(1)  maintain [develop] a comprehensive plan [model and
	guidelines] for the delivery of mental health services and supports
	[support] to a minor and a minor's family using a system of care
	framework[, initiated before the person's 18th birthday],
	including best practices in the financing, administration,
	governance, and delivery of those services;
	(2)  implement strategies [establish a plan] to expand
	the use of system of care practices [Texas Integrated Funding
	Initiative so that the initiative may operate] in the planning and
	delivery of services throughout the state [up to six communities];
	[and]
	(3)  identify appropriate local, [sources of] state,
	and federal funding sources to finance infrastructure and mental
	health services needed to support state and local system of care
	efforts; and
	(4)  develop an evaluation system to measure outcomes
	of state and local system of care efforts [under the initiative from
	a central fund for expansion communities].
	(b-1)  Not later than November 1 of each even-numbered year,
	the consortium shall submit a report to the legislature and the
	Council on Children and Families that contains an evaluation of the
	outcomes of the Texas System of Care and recommendations on
	strengthening state policies and practices that support local
	systems of care, including recommendations relating to:
	(1)  methods to increase access to effective and
	coordinated services and supports;
	(2)  methods to increase community capacity to
	implement local systems of care through training and technical
	assistance;
	(3)  use of cross-system performance and outcome data
	to make informed decisions at individual and system levels; and
	(4)  strategies to maximize public and private funding
	at the local, state, and federal levels.
	SECTION 3.  Subsection (a), Section 531.255, Government
	Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(a)  The commission and the [Texas] Department of State
	[Mental] Health Services [and Mental Retardation] jointly shall
	monitor the progress of the [expansion] communities that implement
	a local system of care, including monitoring cost avoidance and the
	net savings that result from implementing a local system of care.
	SECTION 4.  Section 531.257, Government Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 531.257.  TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR [GRANT] PROJECTS.
	The commission may provide technical assistance to a community that
	implements a local system of care [receives a grant under Section
	531.256].
	SECTION 5.  Sections 531.252, 531.253, and 531.254,
	Subsections (b), (c), and (d), Section 531.255, and Sections
	531.256 and 531.258, Government Code, are repealed.
	SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 421 passed the Senate on
	April 11, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
	the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 23, 2013, by the
	following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 421 passed the House, with
	amendment, on May 20, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 145,
	Nays 0, two present not voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	Approved:
	______________________________
	Date
	______________________________
	Governor