By: Menendez (Senate Sponsor - Van de Putte) H.B. No. 35
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 2011;
April 20, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
and Human Services; May 6, 2011, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 6, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to extending a local behavioral health intervention pilot
project.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 1(f) and (j), Chapter 356 (H.B. 1232),
Acts of the 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, are amended to
read as follows:
(f) Not later than December 1, 2012 [2010], the local mental
health authority involved in the pilot project shall submit a
report to the department regarding the local behavioral health
intervention pilot project, including:
(1) a comprehensive analysis of the efficacy of the
project; and
(2) the local authority's findings and
recommendations.
(j) This Act expires September 1, 2013 [2011].
SECTION 2. (a) It is the intent of the legislature that
amendments to Chapter 356 (H.B. 1232), Acts of the 81st
Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, made by this Act and any other
amendments to that chapter made by another Act of the 82nd
Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, shall be harmonized, if
possible, as provided by Section 311.025(b), Government Code, so
that effect may be given to each amendment.
(b) If an amendment to Chapter 356 (H.B. 1232), Acts of the
81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, made by this Act and an
amendment to that chapter made by another Act of the 82nd
Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, are irreconcilable, it is the
intent of the legislature that the amendment to Chapter 356 (H.B.
1232), Acts of the 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, made by
this Act prevail, regardless of the relative effective dates or
dates of enactment of the irreconcilable amendments.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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