Texas 2017 - 85th Regular

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1		-	85R23159 SMT-F
2	1		By: Coleman H.B. No. 4110
3		-	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4110:
4		-	By: Stickland C.S.H.B. No. 4110
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7	4		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	5		AN ACT
9	6		relating to grants to establish or expand community collaboratives
10	7		for services to persons experiencing homelessness or mental illness
11	8		and county government planning for community collaboratives.
12	9		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
13	10		SECTION 1. Section 539.002, Government Code, is amended to
14	11		read as follows:
15	12		Sec. 539.002. GRANTS FOR ESTABLISHMENT AND EXPANSION OF
16	13		COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVES. (a) To the extent funds are
17	14		appropriated to the department for that purpose, the department
18	15		shall make grants to entities, including local governmental
19	16		entities, nonprofit community organizations, and faith-based
20	17		community organizations, to establish or expand community
21	18		collaboratives that bring the public and private sectors together
22		-	to provide services to persons experiencing homelessness or [and]
23		-	mental illness. [The department may make a maximum of five grants,
24		-	which must be made in the most populous municipalities in this state
25		-	that are located in counties with a population of more than one
26		-	million.] In awarding grants, the department shall give special
27		-	consideration to entities:
28		-	(1) establishing a new collaborative; or
29		-	(2) establishing a new collaborative or expanding a
30		-	collaborative to serve two or more counties that each have a
31		-	population of less than 100,000.
	19	+	to provide services to persons experiencing homelessness and mental
	20	+	illness. [The department may make a maximum of five grants, which
	21	+	must be made in the most populous municipalities in this state that
	22	+	are located in counties with a population of more than one million.]
	23	+	In awarding grants, the department shall:
	24	+	(1) give special consideration to entities
	25	+	establishing a new collaborative[.];
	26	+	(2) to collaboratives that serve multiple continues
	27	+	counties with individual populations below 50,000.
32	28		(b) The department shall require each entity awarded a grant
33	29		under this section to:
34	30		(1) leverage additional funding from private sources
35	31		in an amount that is at least equal to the amount of the grant
36	32		awarded under this section; [and]
37	33		(2) provide evidence of significant coordination and
38	34		collaboration between the entity, local mental health authorities,
39	35		municipalities, local law enforcement agencies, and other
40	36		community stakeholders in establishing or expanding a community
41	37		collaborative funded by a grant awarded under this section; and
42	38		(3) provide evidence of a local law enforcement policy
43	39		to divert appropriate persons from jails or other detention
44	40		facilities to an entity affiliated with a community collaborative
45	41		for services.
46	42		SECTION 2. Chapter 539, Government Code, is amended by
47	43		adding Section 539.0051 to read as follows:
48	44		Sec. 539.0051. PLAN REQUIRED FOR CERTAIN COMMUNITY
49	45		COLLABORATIVES. (a) The governing body of a county shall develop
50	46		and make public a plan detailing:
51	47		(1) how local mental health authorities,
52	48		municipalities, local law enforcement agencies, and other
53	49		community stakeholders in the county could coordinate to establish
54	50		or expand a community collaborative to accomplish the goals of
55	51		Section 539.002;
56	52		(2) how entities in the county may leverage funding
57	53		from private sources to accomplish the goals of Section 539.002
58	54		through the formation or expansion of a community collaborative;
59	55		and
60	56		(3) how the formation or expansion of a community
61	57		collaborative could establish or support resources or services to
62	58		help local law enforcement agencies to divert persons who have been
63	59		arrested to appropriate mental health care.
64		-	(b) The governing bodies of two or more counties that each
65		-	have a population of less than 100,000 may comply with Subsection
66		-	(a) by developing and making public a joint plan that otherwise
67		-	complies with Subsection (a).
68		-	(c) The governing body of a county in which an entity that
	60	+	(b) The governing body of a county in which an entity that
69	61		received a grant under Section 539.002 before September 1, 2017, is
70		-	located is not required to develop a plan under Subsection (a).
	62	+	located is not required to develop a plan under Subsection (a);
	63	+	(c) Counties with a population under 50,000 may work with
	64	+	multiple other counties that touch them that also have a population
	65	+	under 50,000 to form a joint plan.
71	66		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
72	67		a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
73	68		provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
74	69		Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
75	70		Act takes effect September 1, 2017.