Bill Text: TX HB1400 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of outpatient treatment programs to provide court-ordered outpatient mental health services in certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-29 - Left pending in committee [HB1400 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1400-Introduced.html
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| By: Moody | H.B. No. 1400 | |
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| relating to the establishment of outpatient treatment programs to | ||
| provide court-ordered outpatient mental health services in certain | ||
| counties. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 574, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Sections 574.038 and 574.039 to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Sec. 574.038. ESTABLISHMENT OF REGIONAL ASSISTED | ||
| OUTPATIENT TREATMENT PROGRAMS. The commissioners courts of two or | ||
| more counties may establish a regional assisted outpatient | ||
| treatment program to provide court-ordered outpatient mental | ||
| health services under this chapter in the participating counties. | ||
| Sec. 574.039. MANDATORY PROGRAM IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) | ||
| Subject to Subsection (b), the commissioners court of a county with | ||
| a population of more than 200,000 shall establish a program to | ||
| provide court-ordered outpatient mental health services under this | ||
| chapter and apply for federal and state funding to pay the program | ||
| costs. The criminal justice division of the governor's office may | ||
| assist a county in applying for federal funding. | ||
| (b) A county is required to establish a program to provide | ||
| court-ordered outpatient mental health services under this chapter | ||
| only if the county receives federal or state funding specifically | ||
| for that purpose in an amount sufficient to pay the program costs. | ||
| (c) A county that is required to establish a program to | ||
| provide court-ordered outpatient mental health services under this | ||
| chapter and fails to establish or to maintain that program is | ||
| ineligible to receive grant funding from this state or any state | ||
| agency. | ||
| 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, 2023. | ||
