Bill Text: TX HB1758 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a grant program and interagency review of resources to support and sustain recovery community organizations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-08 - Referred to Health & Human Services [HB1758 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1758-Introduced.html
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| By: White | H.B. No. 1758 | |
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| relating to a grant program and interagency review of resources to | ||
| support and sustain recovery community organizations. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 531.02253 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.02253. RECOVERY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION GRANT | ||
| PROGRAM. (a) In this section, "recovery community organization" | ||
| means a nonprofit organization that: | ||
| (1) mobilizes resources inside and outside of a local | ||
| community to increase the prevalence and quality of long-term | ||
| recovery for persons with substance use disorder and their family | ||
| members; and | ||
| (2) is wholly or partly governed by members of the | ||
| local community: | ||
| (A) at least 40 percent of whom identify as a | ||
| person recovering from a substance use disorder; and | ||
| (B) at least 40 percent of whom identify as an | ||
| affected family member of a person recovering from a substance use | ||
| disorder. | ||
| (b) The commission shall develop and operate a grant program | ||
| to award grants to recovery community organizations to: | ||
| (1) establish a network of five recovery community | ||
| organizations in geographical areas throughout this state to | ||
| provide services in one or more counties with populations of not | ||
| more than 100,000; and | ||
| (2) assist each recovery community organization | ||
| described by Subdivision (1) in developing: | ||
| (A) a structure of governance that aligns with | ||
| national best practice standards for substance use recovery | ||
| services; and | ||
| (B) a strategic plan to identify: | ||
| (i) available resources within a community | ||
| served by the recovery community organization; | ||
| (ii) the prioritized needs of a community | ||
| served by the recovery community organization; | ||
| (iii) recovery support solutions; and | ||
| (iv) short- and long-term goals for the | ||
| sustained operation of the recovery community organization and the | ||
| recovery of persons within a community served by the organization. | ||
| (c) The commission may provide a grant under Subsection (b) | ||
| only in accordance with a contract between the commission and the | ||
| recovery community organization. The contract must include | ||
| provisions under which the commission is granted sufficient control | ||
| to ensure the public purpose of substance use recovery is | ||
| accomplished and the state receives the return benefit. | ||
| (d) In addition to money appropriated by the legislature, | ||
| the commission may solicit and accept gifts, grants, or donations | ||
| from any source to administer or finance the grant program | ||
| established under this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) In this section, "recovery community | ||
| organization" has the meaning assigned by Section 531.02253, | ||
| Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| (b) Each of the following state agencies shall identify | ||
| available resources under the state agency's control that may be | ||
| used to support and sustain recovery community organizations | ||
| throughout this state: | ||
| (1) the Health and Human Services Commission; | ||
| (2) the Department of State Health Services; | ||
| (3) the Department of Family and Protective Services; | ||
| (4) the Texas Education Agency; | ||
| (5) the Department of Agriculture; | ||
| (6) the Texas Department of Housing and Community | ||
| Affairs; | ||
| (7) the Texas Department of Criminal Justice; | ||
| (8) the Texas Juvenile Justice Department; | ||
| (9) the Texas Veterans Commission; and | ||
| (10) the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. | ||
| (c) Not later than September 1, 2020, each state agency | ||
| described by Subsection (b) of this section shall prepare and | ||
| submit to the legislature a written report that outlines the | ||
| available resources identified by the state agency under Subsection | ||
| (b). | ||
| SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
| Services Commission shall adopt rules as necessary to implement | ||
| Section 531.02253, Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
