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| 2 | 2 | | By: Price H.B. No. 2707 |
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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 the expansion of the community mental health grant |
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| 8 | 8 | | program to include services to and treatment of individuals with |
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| 9 | 9 | | substance use disorders. |
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| 10 | 10 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 11 | 11 | | SECTION 1. The heading to Section 531.0999, Government |
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| 12 | 12 | | Code, as added by Chapter 770 (H.B. 13), Acts of the 85th |
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| 13 | 13 | | Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, is amended to read as follows: |
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| 14 | 14 | | Sec. 531.0999. GRANT PROGRAM FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND |
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| 15 | 15 | | SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER SERVICES. |
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| 16 | 16 | | SECTION 2. Section 531.0999, Government Code, as added by |
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| 17 | 17 | | Chapter 770 (H.B. 13), Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular |
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| 18 | 18 | | Session, 2017, is amended by amending Subsections (a), (d), (f), |
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| 19 | 19 | | (h), and (i) to read as follows: |
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| 20 | 20 | | (a) To the extent money is appropriated to the commission |
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| 21 | 21 | | for that purpose, the commission shall establish a matching grant |
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| 22 | 22 | | program for the purpose of supporting community mental health and |
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| 23 | 23 | | substance use disorder programs providing services and treatment to |
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| 24 | 24 | | individuals experiencing a mental illness or substance use |
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| 25 | 25 | | disorder. |
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| 26 | 26 | | (d) A grant awarded under the matching grant program and |
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| 27 | 27 | | matching amounts must be used for the sole purpose of supporting |
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| 28 | 28 | | community programs that provide mental health care or substance use |
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| 29 | 29 | | disorder services and treatment to individuals with a mental |
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| 30 | 30 | | illness or substance use disorder, as applicable, and that |
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| 31 | 31 | | coordinate mental health care or substance use disorder services |
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| 32 | 32 | | for individuals with a mental illness or substance use disorder, as |
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| 33 | 33 | | applicable, with other transition support services. |
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| 34 | 34 | | (f) A nonprofit or governmental entity that applies for a |
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| 35 | 35 | | grant under this section must notify each local mental health |
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| 36 | 36 | | authority or local behavioral health authority with a local service |
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| 37 | 37 | | area that is covered wholly or partly by the entity's proposed |
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| 38 | 38 | | community mental health or substance use disorder program and must |
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| 39 | 39 | | provide in the entity's application a letter of support from each |
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| 40 | 40 | | local mental health authority or local behavioral health authority |
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| 41 | 41 | | with a local service area that is covered wholly or partly by the |
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| 42 | 42 | | entity's proposed community mental health or substance use disorder |
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| 43 | 43 | | program. The commission shall consider a local mental health |
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| 44 | 44 | | authority's or local behavioral health authority's written input |
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| 45 | 45 | | before awarding a grant under this section and may take any |
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| 46 | 46 | | recommendations made by the authority. |
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| 47 | 47 | | (h) A community that receives a grant under this section is |
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| 48 | 48 | | required to leverage funds in an amount: |
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| 49 | 49 | | (1) equal to 50 percent of the grant amount if the |
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| 50 | 50 | | community mental health or substance use disorder program is |
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| 51 | 51 | | located in a county with a population of less than 250,000; |
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| 52 | 52 | | (2) equal to 100 percent of the grant amount if the |
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| 53 | 53 | | community mental health or substance use disorder program is |
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| 54 | 54 | | located in a county with a population of at least 250,000; and |
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| 55 | 55 | | (3) equal to the percentage of the grant amount |
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| 56 | 56 | | otherwise required by this subsection for the largest county in |
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| 57 | 57 | | which a community mental health or substance use disorder program |
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| 58 | 58 | | is located if the community mental health or substance use disorder |
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| 59 | 59 | | program is located in more than one county. |
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| 60 | 60 | | (i) Except as provided by Subsection (j), from money |
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| 61 | 61 | | appropriated to the commission for each fiscal year to implement |
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| 62 | 62 | | this section, the commission shall reserve 50 percent of that total |
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| 63 | 63 | | to be awarded only as grants to a community mental health or |
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| 64 | 64 | | substance use disorder program located in a county with a |
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| 65 | 65 | | population not greater than 250,000. |
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| 66 | 66 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 67 | 67 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 68 | 68 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 69 | 69 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 70 | 70 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
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