| 1 | 1 | | 85R9015 SMT-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Thierry H.B. No. 2402 |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to an acute psychiatric bed registry to list available |
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| 8 | 8 | | beds for emergency detention and treatment of certain individuals. |
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| 9 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 10 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 533, Health and Safety |
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| 11 | 11 | | Code, is amended by adding Section 533.054 to read as follows: |
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| 12 | 12 | | Sec. 533.054. ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC BED REGISTRY. (a) In this |
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| 13 | 13 | | section, "inpatient mental health facility" has the meaning |
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| 14 | 14 | | assigned by Section 571.003. |
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| 15 | 15 | | (b) The department shall develop and administer a web-based |
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| 16 | 16 | | and searchable acute psychiatric bed registry to collect, |
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| 17 | 17 | | aggregate, and display information about beds at inpatient mental |
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| 18 | 18 | | health facilities that are available for the temporary detention |
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| 19 | 19 | | and treatment of individuals under Chapter 573. |
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| 20 | 20 | | (c) For each inpatient mental health facility, the acute |
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| 21 | 21 | | psychiatric bed registry must list: |
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| 22 | 22 | | (1) the name and contact information of the facility; |
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| 23 | 23 | | (2) the number of available beds; |
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| 24 | 24 | | (3) the type of individual that may be admitted; |
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| 25 | 25 | | (4) the level of security provided; and |
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| 26 | 26 | | (5) any other information that may be necessary to |
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| 27 | 27 | | identify appropriate beds for the temporary detention and treatment |
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| 28 | 28 | | of individuals under Chapter 573. |
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| 29 | 29 | | (d) The department shall make the acute psychiatric bed |
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| 30 | 30 | | registry available to community service boards, mental health |
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| 31 | 31 | | facilities, public and private residential crisis stabilization |
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| 32 | 32 | | units, emergency care facilities, and emergency care providers. |
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| 33 | 33 | | The department may make the registry available to any other person |
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| 34 | 34 | | the department considers appropriate. |
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| 35 | 35 | | (e) An inpatient mental health facility shall submit to the |
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| 36 | 36 | | department information for the acute psychiatric bed registry as |
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| 37 | 37 | | required by the department and review the information and confirm |
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| 38 | 38 | | its accuracy to the department at least once daily and whenever |
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| 39 | 39 | | there is a change in bed availability at the facility. |
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| 40 | 40 | | (f) An inpatient mental health facility shall designate an |
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| 41 | 41 | | employee or employees as necessary to: |
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| 42 | 42 | | (1) submit to the department the information required |
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| 43 | 43 | | under Subsection (e) and review the information as required by that |
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| 44 | 44 | | subsection; and |
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| 45 | 45 | | (2) serve as a contact for questions about the |
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| 46 | 46 | | information submitted. |
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| 47 | 47 | | (g) The department may contract with any person the |
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| 48 | 48 | | department considers appropriate to develop and administer the |
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| 49 | 49 | | acute psychiatric bed registry. |
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| 50 | 50 | | SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2018, the Department of |
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| 51 | 51 | | State Health Services shall establish the acute psychiatric bed |
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| 52 | 52 | | registry required by Section 533.054, Health and Safety Code, as |
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| 53 | 53 | | added by this Act. |
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| 54 | 54 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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