81R7566 UM-D
By: Uresti S.B. No. 1054
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the Hill Country local mental health authority crisis
stabilization unit.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 551.009, Health and
Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 551.009. HILL COUNTRY LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH AUTHORITY
CRISIS STABILIZATION UNIT [PILOT PROJECT].
SECTION 2. Sections 551.009(a), (c), and (e), Health and
Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) The Department of State Health Services shall operate
[implement a crisis stabilization unit pilot project by
establishing and operating] a crisis stabilization unit on the
grounds of the Kerrville State Hospital as provided by this
section. The unit must be a 16-bed facility separate from the
buildings used by the Kerrville State Hospital.
(c) The local mental health authority shall contract with
Kerrville State Hospital to provide food service, laundry service,
and lawn care[, and equipment rental to the crisis stabilization
unit. The local mental health authority may contract with
Kerrville State Hospital to provide pharmaceutical services for the
crisis stabilization unit].
(e) The local mental health authority operating the crisis
stabilization unit under contract shall use, for the purpose of
operating the 16-bed unit, the money appropriated to the department
for operating 16 beds in state hospitals that is allocated to the
local mental health authority. The department shall ensure that
the local mental health authority retains the remainder of the
local authority's state hospital allocation that is not used for
operating the 16-bed unit. The department may allocate additional
funds appropriated to the department for state hospitals to the
crisis stabilization unit [pilot project].
SECTION 3. Sections 551.009(g) and (h), Health and Safety
Code, are repealed.
SECTION 4. 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 August 31, 2009.