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1	1	83R21033 EES-F
2	2	By: J. Davis of Harris, Burkett, H.B. No. 2887
3	3	Turner of Harris, Kolkhorst, Menendez,
4	4	et al.
5	5	Substitute the following for H.B.
6	6
7	7
8	8	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
9	9	AN ACT
10	10	relating to the establishment and expansion of community
11	11	collaboratives by entities to provide services to and coordinate
12	12	the care of persons who are homeless, persons with mental illness,
13	13	and persons with substance abuse problems.
14	14	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
15	15	SECTION 1. Subtitle I, Title 4, Government Code, is amended
16	16	by adding Chapter 539 to read as follows:
17	17	CHAPTER 539. COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVES
18	18	Sec. 539.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
19	19	(1) "Department" means the Department of State Health
20	20	Services.
21	21	(2) "Executive commissioner" means the executive
22	22	commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.
23	23	Sec. 539.002. GRANTS FOR ESTABLISHMENT AND EXPANSION OF
24	24	COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVES. (a) To the extent funds are
25	25	appropriated to the department for that purpose, the department
26	26	shall make grants to entities, including local governmental
27	27	entities, nonprofit community organizations, and faith-based
28	28	community organizations, to establish or expand community
29	29	collaboratives that bring the public and private sectors together
30	30	to provide services to and coordinate the care of persons who are
31	31	homeless, persons with mental illness, and persons with substance
32	32	abuse problems.
33	33	(b) The amount of a grant made to an entity by the department
34	34	under this section may not exceed $7.5 million and, up to that
35	35	amount, shall be equal to the amount of money provided to the entity
36	36	from private funding sources for the establishment or expansion of
37	37	a community collaborative.
38	38	Sec. 539.003. ACCEPTABLE USES OF GRANT MONEY. An entity
39	39	shall use money received from a grant made by the department and
40	40	private funding sources for the establishment or expansion of a
41	41	community collaborative, provided that the collaborative must be
42	42	self-sustaining within seven years. Acceptable uses for the money
43	43	include:
44	44	(1) the development of the infrastructure of the
45	45	collaborative and the start-up costs of the collaborative;
46	46	(2) the establishment, operation, or maintenance of
47	47	other community service providers in the community served by the
48	48	collaborative, including intake centers, detoxification units,
49	49	sheltering centers for food, workforce training centers,
50	50	microbusinesses, and educational centers;
51	51	(3) the provision of clothing, hygiene products, and
52	52	medical services to and the arrangement of transitional and
53	53	permanent residential housing for persons served by the
54	54	collaborative;
55	55	(4) the provision of mental health services and
56	56	substance abuse treatment not readily available in the community
57	57	served by the collaborative;
58	58	(5) the provision of information, tools, and resource
59	59	referrals to assist persons served by the collaborative in
60	60	addressing the needs of their children; and
61	61	(6) the establishment and operation of coordinated
62	62	intake processes, including triage procedures, to protect the
63	63	public safety in the community served by the collaborative.
64	64	Sec. 539.004. ELEMENTS OF COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVES. (a)
65	65	If appropriate, an entity shall incorporate into the community
66	66	collaborative operated by the entity the use of the
67	67	department-operated Texas Electronic Registrar, transportation
68	68	plans, and case managers. An entity shall also consider
69	69	incorporating into a collaborative mentoring and volunteering
70	70	opportunities, strategies to assist homeless youth and homeless
71	71	families with children, strategies to reintegrate persons who were
72	72	recently incarcerated into the community, services for veterans,
73	73	and strategies for persons served by the collaborative to
74	74	participate in the planning, governance, and oversight of the
75	75	collaborative.
76	76	(b) The focus of a community collaborative shall be the
77	77	eventual successful transition of persons from receiving services
78	78	from the collaborative to becoming integrated into the community
79	79	served by the collaborative through community relationships and
80	80	family supports.
81	81	Sec. 539.005. OUTCOME MEASURES FOR COMMUNITY
82	82	COLLABORATIVES. Each entity that receives a grant from the
83	83	department to establish or expand a community collaborative shall
84	84	select at least four of the following outcome measures that the
85	85	entity will focus on meeting through the implementation and
86	86	operation of the collaborative:
87	87	(1) persons served by the collaborative will find
88	88	employment that results in those persons having incomes that are at
89	89	or above 100 percent of the federal poverty level;
90	90	(2) persons served by the collaborative will find
91	91	permanent housing;
92	92	(3) persons served by the collaborative will complete
93	93	alcohol or substance abuse programs;
94	94	(4) the collaborative will help start social
95	95	businesses in the community or engage in job creation, job
96	96	training, or other workforce development activities;
97	97	(5) there will be a decrease in the use of jail beds by
98	98	persons served by the collaborative;
99	99	(6) there will be a decrease in the need for emergency
100	100	care by persons served by the collaborative;
101	101	(7) there will be a decrease in the number of children
102	102	whose families lack adequate housing referred to the Department of
103	103	Family and Protective Services or a local entity responsible for
104	104	child welfare; and
105	105	(8) any other appropriate outcome measure that
106	106	measures whether a collaborative is meeting a specific need of the
107	107	community served by the collaborative and that is approved by the
108	108	department.
109	109	Sec. 539.006. ANNUAL REVIEW OF OUTCOME MEASURES. The
110	110	department shall contract with an independent third party to verify
111	111	annually whether a community collaborative is meeting the outcome
112	112	measures under Section 539.005 selected by the entity that operates
113	113	the collaborative.
114	114	Sec. 539.007. REDUCTION AND CESSATION OF FUNDING. The
115	115	department shall establish processes by which the department may
116	116	reduce or cease providing funding to an entity if the community
117	117	collaborative operated by the entity does not meet the outcome
118	118	measures selected by the entity for the collaborative under Section
119	119	539.005 or is not self-sustaining after seven years. The
120	120	department shall redistribute any funds withheld from an entity
121	121	under this section to other entities operating high-performing
122	122	collaboratives on a competitive basis.
123	123	Sec. 539.008. RULES. The executive commissioner shall
124	124	adopt any rules necessary to implement the community collaborative
125	125	grant program established under this chapter, including rules to
126	126	establish the requirements for an entity to be eligible to receive a
127	127	grant, the required elements of a community collaborative operated
128	128	by an entity, and permissible and prohibited uses of money received
129	129	by an entity from a grant made by the department under this chapter.
130	130	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.