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1	1	S.B. No. 1677
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4	4	AN ACT
5	5	relating to the establishment and administration of Health and
6	6	Human Services Commission programs providing mental health
7	7	services to certain individuals in this state.
8	8	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	9	SECTION 1. Section 531.0991, Government Code, is amended by
10	10	adding Subsection (e-1) to read as follows:
11	11	(e-1) If the commission is appropriated money to implement
12	12	this section for a state fiscal year in an amount that exceeds the
13	13	total amount of grants awarded under this section in the previous
14	14	state fiscal year, the commission, in selecting grant recipients
15	15	for the excess amount, must accept applications or proposals from
16	16	applicants that were not selected as grant recipients under this
17	17	section in the previous state fiscal year or applicants that were
18	18	selected as grant recipients but require additional funding for the
19	19	recipient's community mental health program for purposes of this
20	20	section.
21	21	SECTION 2. Section 531.0993, Government Code, is amended by
22	22	adding Subsections (d-1) and (d-2) to read as follows:
23	23	(d-1) The commission shall establish procedures to assist a
24	24	community collaborative that includes a county with a population of
25	25	less than 250,000 with submission of a petition under Subsection
26	26	(d).
27	27	(d-2) If the commission is appropriated money to implement
28	28	this section for a state fiscal year in an amount that exceeds the
29	29	total amount of grants awarded under this section in the previous
30	30	state fiscal year, the commission, in selecting grant recipients
31	31	for the excess amount, must accept petitions from community
32	32	collaboratives that were not selected as grant recipients under
33	33	this section in the previous state fiscal year or collaboratives
34	34	that were selected as grant recipients in the previous state fiscal
35	35	year but require additional funding for the recipient's
36	36	collaborative for purposes of this section.
37	37	SECTION 3. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is
38	38	amended by adding Section 531.09936 to read as follows:
39	39	Sec. 531.09936. ESTABLISHMENT OR EXPANSION OF REGIONAL
40	40	BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTERS OR JAIL DIVERSION CENTERS. (a) In this
41	41	section:
42	42	(1) "Governmental entity" means this state, a
43	43	political subdivision of this state, or an agency of this state or a
44	44	political subdivision of this state.
45	45	(2) "Local mental health authority" has the meaning
46	46	assigned by Section 531.002, Health and Safety Code.
47	47	(3) "Nonprofit organization" means an organization
48	48	that is exempt from federal income taxation under Section 501(a),
49	49	Internal Revenue Code of 1986, by being listed as an exempt entity
50	50	under Section 501(c)(3) of that code.
51	51	(b) To the extent money is appropriated to the commission
52	52	for that purpose, the commission, in cooperation with local mental
53	53	health authorities located primarily in rural areas of this state,
54	54	shall contract with nonprofit organizations or governmental
55	55	entities to establish or expand behavioral health centers or jail
56	56	diversion centers in the authorities' local service areas to:
57	57	(1) provide additional forensic hospital beds and
58	58	competency restoration services;
59	59	(2) provide inpatient and outpatient mental health
60	60	services to adults and children; and
61	61	(3) provide services to reduce recidivism and the
62	62	frequency of arrest, incarceration, and emergency detentions among
63	63	persons with mental illness in the service areas.
64	64	(c) The executive commissioner shall develop criteria for
65	65	the evaluation of applications or proposals submitted by a
66	66	nonprofit organization or governmental entity seeking to contract
67	67	with the commission under this section.
68	68	(d) This section may not be construed to affect a grant
69	69	program established by the commission under this code.
70	70	SECTION 4. (a) The state auditor's office shall conduct an
71	71	audit of the inmates in county jails who are waiting for a forensic
72	72	hospital bed for the provision of competency restoration services.
73	73	The audit must identify any issues and inefficiencies in the
74	74	commitment process.
75	75	(b) Not later than December 1, 2024, the state auditor shall
76	76	prepare a report of the audit conducted under Subsection (a) of this
77	77	section and publish the report on the state auditor's Internet
78	78	website. The report must include:
79	79	(1) a review of the history and status of the waitlist
80	80	beginning September 2018 through the most current year for which
81	81	information is available;
82	82	(2) any disparities in treatment in the forensic
83	83	commitment process based on race, gender, ethnicity, or age; and
84	84	(3) any other analysis the state auditor determines
85	85	appropriate.
86	86	(c) This section expires September 1, 2025.
87	87	SECTION 5. As soon as practicable after the effective date
88	88	of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human
89	89	Services Commission shall adopt rules necessary to implement
90	90	Sections 531.0993(d-1) and 531.09936, Government Code, as added by
91	91	this Act.
92	92	SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
93	93	______________________________ ______________________________
94	94	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
95	95	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1677 passed the Senate on
96	96	May 4, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0;
97	97	May 26, 2023, Senate refused to concur in House amendments and
98	98	requested appointment of Conference Committee; May 26, 2023, House
99	99	granted request of the Senate; May 28, 2023, Senate adopted
100	100	Conference Committee Report by the following vote: Yeas 29,
101	101	Nays 2.
102	102	______________________________
103	103	Secretary of the Senate
104	104	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1677 passed the House, with
105	105	amendments, on May 19, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 142,
106	106	Nays 0, two present not voting; May 26, 2023, House granted request
107	107	of the Senate for appointment of Conference Committee;
108	108	May 28, 2023, House adopted Conference Committee Report by the
109	109	following vote: Yeas 134, Nays 8, two present not voting.
110	110	______________________________
111	111	Chief Clerk of the House
112	112	Approved:
113	113	______________________________
114	114	Date
115	115	______________________________
116	116	Governor