Bill Text: TX HB13 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of a matching grant program to support community mental health programs for individuals experiencing mental illness and the coordination of certain behavioral health grants.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-14 - See remarks for effective date [HB13 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB13-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 13 |
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relating to the creation of a matching grant program to support | ||
community mental health programs for individuals experiencing | ||
mental illness and the coordination of certain behavioral health | ||
grants. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 531.0999 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.0999. GRANT PROGRAM FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. | ||
(a) To the extent money is appropriated to the commission for that | ||
purpose, the commission shall establish a matching grant program | ||
for the purpose of supporting community mental health programs | ||
providing services and treatment to individuals experiencing | ||
mental illness. | ||
(b) The commission shall ensure that each grant recipient | ||
obtains or secures contributions to match awarded grants in amounts | ||
of money or other consideration as required by Subsection (h). The | ||
money or other consideration obtained or secured by the recipient, | ||
as determined by the executive commissioner, may include cash or | ||
in-kind contributions from any person but may not include money | ||
from state or federal funds. | ||
(c) Money appropriated to or obtained by the commission for | ||
the matching grant program must be disbursed directly to grant | ||
recipients by the commission, as authorized by the executive | ||
commissioner. | ||
(d) A grant awarded under the matching grant program and | ||
matching amounts must be used for the sole purpose of supporting | ||
community programs that provide mental health care services and | ||
treatment to individuals with a mental illness and that coordinate | ||
mental health care services for individuals with a mental illness | ||
with other transition support services. | ||
(e) The commission shall select grant recipients based on | ||
the submission of applications or proposals by nonprofit and | ||
governmental entities. The executive commissioner shall develop | ||
criteria for the evaluation of those applications or proposals and | ||
the selection of grant recipients. The selection criteria must: | ||
(1) evaluate and score: | ||
(A) fiscal controls for the project; | ||
(B) project effectiveness; | ||
(C) project cost; and | ||
(D) an applicant's previous experience with | ||
grants and contracts; | ||
(2) address whether the services proposed in the | ||
application or proposal would duplicate services already available | ||
in the applicant's service area; | ||
(3) address the possibility of and method for making | ||
multiple awards; and | ||
(4) include other factors that the executive | ||
commissioner considers relevant. | ||
(f) A nonprofit or governmental entity that applies for a | ||
grant under this section must notify each local mental health | ||
authority with a local service area that is covered wholly or partly | ||
by the entity's proposed community mental health program and must | ||
provide in the entity's application a letter of support from each | ||
local mental health authority with a local service area that is | ||
covered wholly or partly by the entity's proposed community mental | ||
health program. The commission shall consider a local mental | ||
health authority's written input before awarding a grant under this | ||
section and may take any recommendations made by the authority. | ||
(g) The commission shall condition each grant awarded to a | ||
recipient under the program on the recipient obtaining or securing | ||
matching funds from non-state sources in amounts of money or other | ||
consideration as required by Subsection (h). | ||
(h) A community that receives a grant under this section is | ||
required to leverage funds in an amount: | ||
(1) equal to 50 percent of the grant amount if the | ||
community mental health program is located in a county with a | ||
population of less than 250,000; | ||
(2) equal to 100 percent of the grant amount if the | ||
community mental health program is located in a county with a | ||
population of at least 250,000; and | ||
(3) equal to the percentage of the grant amount | ||
otherwise required by this subsection for the largest county in | ||
which a community mental health program is located if the community | ||
mental health program is located in more than one county. | ||
(i) Except as provided by Subsection (j), from money | ||
appropriated to the commission for each fiscal year to implement | ||
this section, the commission shall reserve 50 percent of that total | ||
to be awarded only as grants to a community mental health program | ||
located in a county with a population not greater than 250,000. | ||
(j) To the extent money appropriated to the commission to | ||
implement this section for a fiscal year remains available to the | ||
commission after the commission selects grant recipients for the | ||
fiscal year, the commission shall make grants available using the | ||
money remaining for the fiscal year through a competitive request | ||
for proposal process, without regard to the limitation provided by | ||
Subsection (i). | ||
(k) Not later than December 1 of each calendar year, the | ||
executive commissioner shall submit to the governor, the lieutenant | ||
governor, and each member of the legislature a report evaluating | ||
the success of the matching grant program created by this section. | ||
(l) The executive commissioner shall adopt any rules | ||
necessary to implement the matching grant program under this | ||
section. | ||
(m) The commission shall implement a process to better | ||
coordinate all behavioral health grants administered by the | ||
commission in a manner that streamlines the administrative | ||
processes | ||
at the commission and decreases the administrative burden | ||
on applicants applying for multiple grants. This may include the | ||
development of a standard application for multiple behavioral | ||
health grants. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect only if a specific | ||
appropriation for the implementation of the Act is provided in a | ||
general appropriations act of the 85th Legislature. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 13 was passed by the House on April | ||
13, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 133, Nays 6, 2 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 13 on May 25, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 7, 1 | ||
present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 13 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 23, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |