Bill Text: TX HB13 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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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-Introduced.html
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-Introduced.html
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By: Price | 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. | ||
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 enter into an agreement with a | ||
qualified nonprofit or other private entity to serve as the | ||
administrator of the matching grant program. The duties of the | ||
administrator must include assisting, supporting, and advising the | ||
commission in fulfilling the commission's responsibilities with | ||
respect to the program. The administrator may advise the | ||
commission on: | ||
(1) designing, developing, implementing, and managing | ||
the program; | ||
(2) determining criteria for local community | ||
collaboration and the types of services and deliveries eligible for | ||
grants; | ||
(3) eligibility requirements for grant recipients; | ||
(4) designing and managing the competitive bidding | ||
processes for applications or proposals and the evaluation and | ||
selection of grant recipients; | ||
(5) contractual requirements for grant recipients; | ||
(6) grant requisites and mechanisms; | ||
(7) roles and responsibilities of grant recipients; | ||
(8) reporting requirements for grant recipients; | ||
(9) support and technical capabilities; | ||
(10) timelines and deadlines for the program; | ||
(11) evaluation of the program and grant recipients; | ||
and | ||
(12) requirements for reporting on the program to | ||
policy makers. | ||
(c) The administrator of the matching grant program 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 (j). 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. | ||
(d) 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. Money or other consideration obtained or secured by | ||
the administrator must be disbursed or provided directly to grant | ||
recipients by the administrator, private contributors, or local | ||
governments, as authorized by the executive commissioner. | ||
(e) 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. | ||
(f) The administrator must obtain the commission's approval | ||
of the eligibility requirements for grant recipients, the types of | ||
services and deliveries eligible for grants, and the requirements | ||
for reporting as developed by the administrator before the | ||
commission awards a grant under the matching grant program. | ||
(g) 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 the possibility of and method for making | ||
multiple awards; and | ||
(3) include other factors that the executive | ||
commissioner considers relevant. | ||
(h) The commission shall notify the local mental health | ||
authority that encompasses a community mental health program of the | ||
proposed mental health services that will be funded by the grant | ||
before awarding a grant to a recipient to serve the community mental | ||
health program. The local mental health authority may submit | ||
written input to the commission regarding whether the authority | ||
believes the proposed mental health services are necessary, whether | ||
the proposed services undermine or strengthen mental health | ||
services available in the community, and whether the proposed | ||
services are likely to be effective at improving local mental | ||
health. The commission and the administrator shall consider the | ||
authority's written input before awarding a grant under this | ||
section, and may take any recommendations made by the authority. | ||
(i) The commission shall condition each grant awarded to a | ||
recipient under the program on the administrator ensuring that the | ||
recipient has obtained or secured matching funds from non-state | ||
sources in amounts of money or other consideration as required by | ||
Subsection (j). | ||
(j) A community that receives a grant under this section is | ||
required to leverage funds in an amount: | ||
(1) equal to 100 percent of the grant amount if the | ||
community mental health program is located in a county with a | ||
population of less than 125,000; | ||
(2) equal to 115 percent of the grant amount if the | ||
community mental health program is located in a county with a | ||
population of at least 125,000 and not greater than 250,000; | ||
(3) equal to 125 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 not greater than 500,000; | ||
(4) equal to 150 percent of the grant amount if the | ||
community mental health program is located in a county with a | ||
population of at least 500,000 and not greater than one million; and | ||
(5) equal to 167 percent of the grant amount if the | ||
community mental health program is located in a county with a | ||
population greater than one million. | ||
(k) From money appropriated to the commission to implement | ||
this section, the commission shall reserve: | ||
(1) 25 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; and | ||
(2) five 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 125,000. | ||
(l) 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. | ||
(m) The executive commissioner shall adopt any rules | ||
necessary to implement the matching grant program under this | ||
section. | ||
SECTION 2. 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. |