Texas 2019 - 86th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB2358 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 03/08/2019

                            86R14157 EAS-D
 By: Fallon S.B. No. 2358


 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to per capita funding by population of each local mental
 health authority.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Section 533.035, Health and Safety Code, is
 amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
 (f)  The commission shall execute contracts with local
 mental health authorities in a manner that ensures funding of
 services per capita of the population served by a local mental
 health authority is equal to the funding of services per capita of
 the population served by other local mental health authorities.
 SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
 to contracts between the Health and Human Services Commission and a
 local mental health authority executed or renewed, and audits
 conducted under those contracts, on or after the effective date of
 this Act. Contracts entered into or renewed before the effective
 date of this Act, and audits conducted under those contracts, are
 governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date
 of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
 SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.