Bill Text: TX SB897 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the administration of a grant program to support community mental health programs assisting veterans and their families.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)

Status: (Passed) 2025-05-15 - Effective on 9/1/25 [SB897 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB897-Enrolled.html

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S.B. No. 897

AN ACT
relating to the administration of a grant program to support
community mental health programs assisting veterans and their
families.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 547.0304 and 547.0305, Government Code,
as effective April 1, 2025, are amended to read as follows:
Sec. 547.0304. MATCHING GRANT CONDITIONS: SINGLE COUNTIES.
For services and treatment provided in a single county, the
commission shall condition each grant provided under this
subchapter on a potential grant recipient providing funds from
non-state sources in a total amount at least equal to:
(1) 25 percent of the grant amount if the community
mental health program to be supported by the grant provides
services and treatment in a county with a population of less than
100,000;
(2) 50 percent of the grant amount if the community
mental health program to be supported by the grant provides
services and treatment in a county with a population of 100,000 or
more but less than 250,000; or
(3) 75 [100] percent of the grant amount if the
community mental health program to be supported by the grant
provides services and treatment in a county with a population of
250,000 or more.
Sec. 547.0305. MATCHING GRANT CONDITIONS: MULTIPLE
COUNTIES. For a community mental health program that provides
services and treatment in more than one county, the commission
shall condition each grant provided under this subchapter on a
potential grant recipient providing funds from non-state sources in
a total amount at least equal to:
(1) 25 percent of the grant amount if the county with
the largest population in which the community mental health program
to be supported by the grant provides services and treatment has a
population of less than 100,000;
(2) 50 percent of the grant amount if the county with
the largest population in which the community mental health program
to be supported by the grant provides services and treatment has a
population of 100,000 or more but less than 250,000; or
(3) 75 [100] percent of the grant amount if the county
with the largest population in which the community mental health
program to be supported by the grant provides services and
treatment has a population of 250,000 or more.
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
a grant awarded on or after the effective date of this Act. A grant
awarded before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law
in effect on the date the award was made, and the former law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. The Health and Human Services Commission is
required to implement the changes in law made by this Act to
Sections 547.0304 and 547.0305, Government Code, only if the
legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose in an
amount greater than the amount appropriated to the commission for
that purpose for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2025.
If the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that
purpose and in such amount, the commission may, but is not required
to, implement those changes in law using other money available to
the commission for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 897 passed the Senate on
April 10, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 897 passed the House on
April 30, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, two
present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor