Bill Text: TX SB454 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to mental health services development plans as updated by the Health and Human Services Commission and local mental health authority groups.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-04 - Effective immediately [SB454 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB454-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 454 |
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relating to mental health services development plans as updated by | ||
the Health and Human Services Commission and local mental health | ||
authority groups. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 531.0222 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.0222. LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH AUTHORITY GROUP REGIONAL | ||
PLANNING. (a) In this section, "local mental health authority | ||
group" means a group of local mental health authorities established | ||
by the commission under Chapter 963 (S.B. 633), Acts of the 86th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 2019. | ||
(b) The commission shall require each local mental health | ||
authority group to meet at least quarterly to collaborate on | ||
planning and implementing regional strategies to reduce: | ||
(1) costs to local governments of providing services | ||
to persons experiencing a mental health crisis; | ||
(2) transportation to mental health facilities of | ||
persons served by an authority that is a member of the group; | ||
(3) incarceration of persons with mental illness in | ||
county jails that are located in an area served by an authority that | ||
is a member of the group; and | ||
(4) visits by persons with mental illness at hospital | ||
emergency rooms located in an area served by an authority that is a | ||
member of the group. | ||
(c) The commission shall use federal funds in accordance | ||
with state and federal guidelines to implement this section. | ||
(d) The commission, in coordination with each local mental | ||
health authority group, shall annually update the mental health | ||
services development plan that was initially developed by the | ||
commission and each local mental health authority group under | ||
Chapter 963 (S.B. 633), Acts of the 86th Legislature, Regular | ||
Session, 2019. The commission and each group's updated plan must | ||
include a description of: | ||
(1) actions taken by the group to implement regional | ||
strategies in the plan; and | ||
(2) new regional strategies identified by the group to | ||
reduce the circumstances described by Subsection (b), including the | ||
estimated number of outpatient and inpatient beds necessary to meet | ||
the goals of each group's regional strategy. | ||
(e) Not later than December 1 of each year, the commission | ||
shall produce and publish on its Internet website a report | ||
containing the most recent version of each mental health services | ||
development plan developed by the commission and a local mental | ||
health authority group. | ||
SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 531.0222, Government | ||
Code, as added by this Act, a local mental health authority group | ||
and the Health and Human Services Commission are not required to | ||
produce or publish a report required by that section before | ||
December 1, 2022. | ||
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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
legislative session. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 454 passed the Senate on | ||
April 13, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 454 passed the House on | ||
May 18, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 2, two | ||
present not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |