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1	1	83R26941 AED-F
2	2	By: McClendon, Rose, Naishtat, et al. H.B. No. 2401
3	3	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2401:
4	4	By: Naishtat C.S.H.B. No. 2401
5	5
6	6
7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to the provision of community-based services to
10	10	individuals who have or may have mental illness.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Section 534.053, Health and Safety Code, is
13	13	amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to
14	14	read as follows:
15	15	(a) The department shall ensure that, at a minimum, the
16	16	following services are available in each service area:
17	17	(1) 24-hour emergency screening and rapid crisis
18	18	stabilization services;
19	19	(2) community-based crisis residential services or
20	20	hospitalization;
21	21	(3) community-based assessments, including the
22	22	development of interdisciplinary treatment plans and diagnosis and
23	23	evaluation services;
24	24	(4) family support services, including respite care;
25	25	(5) case management services;
26	26	(6) medication-related services, including medication
27	27	clinics, laboratory monitoring, medication education, mental
28	28	health maintenance education, and the provision of medication;
29	29	[and]
30	30	(7) psychosocial rehabilitation programs, including
31	31	social support activities, independent living skills, and
32	32	vocational training; and
33	33	(8) community-based alternatives to inpatient
34	34	hospitalization.
35	35	(d) Notwithstanding any other law, the department shall
36	36	ensure the availability of appropriate and timely services designed
37	37	to meet acute mental health placement needs of patients in order to
38	38	reduce a patient's acute symptoms of mental illness and to prevent a
39	39	patient's admission to an inpatient mental health facility, as
40	40	defined by Section 571.003. The available services must include at
41	41	least one of the following:
42	42	(1) crisis stabilization services;
43	43	(2) short-term residential treatment, respite care,
44	44	or extended observation services; and
45	45	(3) medical and nursing services to address the
46	46	patient's mental health condition or presenting symptoms.
47	47	SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 534, Health and Safety
48	48	Code, is amended by adding Section 534.0531 to read as follows:
49	49	Sec. 534.0531. FUNDING FOR COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES. The
50	50	department shall provide funding for the cost of ensuring the
51	51	availability in each service area of community-based alternatives
52	52	to inpatient hospitalization to the extent those costs are not paid
53	53	from the delivery system reform incentive payments received under
54	54	the Texas Health Care Transformation and Quality Improvement
55	55	Program 1115 waiver.
56	56	SECTION 3. Section 534.054, Health and Safety Code, is
57	57	amended by adding Subsection (b) to read as follows:
58	58	(b) The department shall contract with a local mental health
59	59	authority to provide programs designed to make community-based
60	60	alternatives accessible and available in order to avert or mitigate
61	61	the need for inpatient hospitalization.
62	62	SECTION 4. If before implementing any provision of this Act
63	63	a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a
64	64	federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision,
65	65	the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or
66	66	authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the
67	67	waiver or authorization is granted.
68	68	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.