83R10582 AED-F
By: McClendon H.B. No. 2401
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the provision of community-based services to
individuals who have or may have mental illness.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 534.053, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to
read as follows:
(a) The department shall ensure that, at a minimum, the
following services are available in each service area:
(1) 24-hour emergency screening and rapid crisis
stabilization services;
(2) community-based crisis residential services or
hospitalization;
(3) community-based assessments, including the
development of interdisciplinary treatment plans and diagnosis and
evaluation services;
(4) family support services, including respite care;
(5) case management services;
(6) medication-related services, including medication
clinics, laboratory monitoring, medication education, mental
health maintenance education, and the provision of medication;
[and]
(7) psychosocial rehabilitation programs, including
social support activities, independent living skills, and
vocational training; and
(8) community-based alternatives to inpatient
hospitalization.
(d) The department shall ensure the availability of
services designed to reduce a patient's acute symptoms of mental
illness and any other services necessary to prevent a patient's
admission to an inpatient mental health facility, as defined by
Section 571.003. The available services must include:
(1) crisis stabilization services;
(2) short-term residential treatment; and
(3) medical and nursing services.
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 534, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 534.0531 to read as follows:
Sec. 534.0531. FUNDING FOR COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES. The
department shall provide funding for the cost of ensuring the
availability of community-based alternatives to inpatient
hospitalization to the extent those costs are not paid from the
delivery system reform incentive payments received under the Texas
Health Care Transformation and Quality Improvement Program 1115
waiver.
SECTION 3. Section 534.054, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (b) to read as follows:
(b) The department shall contract with a local mental health
authority to provide programs to provide community-based
alternatives to inpatient hospitalization. Notwithstanding
Section 533.0358 and subject to Subsection (c), the contract must
require the local mental health authority to operate the programs
to provide those alternatives.
SECTION 4. If before implementing any provision of this Act
a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a
federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision,
the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or
authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the
waiver or authorization is granted.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.