Bill Text: TX SB613 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to services provided by the Health and Human Services Commission to sexually violent offenders who are incompetent to attend sex offender treatment.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB613 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB613-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Whitmire, et al. S.B. No. 613
(Davis of Harris)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to services provided by the Health and Human Services
Commission to sexually violent offenders who are incompetent to
attend sex offender treatment.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 841.0835, Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 841.0835. COMMITTED PERSONS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS.
(a) The Health and Human Services Commission, after coordination
[shall coordinate] with the office, shall [to] provide psychiatric
services, disability services, and housing for a committed person
with an intellectual or developmental disability, a mental illness,
or a physical disability that prevents the person from effectively
participating in the sex offender treatment program administered by
the office.
(b) For a committed person who the office has determined is
unable to effectively participate in the sex offender treatment
program because the person's mental illness prevents the person
from understanding and internalizing the concepts presented by the
program's treatment material, the Health and Human Services
Commission shall provide inpatient mental health services until the
person is able to participate effectively in the sex offender
treatment program.
(c) A person who is adjudicated as a sexually violent
predator under this chapter and who has a mental illness that
prevents the person from effectively participating in a sex
offender treatment program presents a substantial risk of serious
harm to the person or others for purposes of Chapter 574.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.