Bill Text: TX HB2334 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to grants awarded under the grant program to reduce recidivism, arrest, and incarceration of individuals with mental illness.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-06 - Referred to Corrections [HB2334 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2334-Introduced.html

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86R11129 EAS-F
By: Miller H.B. No. 2334

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to grants awarded under the grant program to reduce
recidivism, arrest, and incarceration of individuals with mental
illness.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 531.0993, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
(j) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section,
the commission may award a grant under this section for the state
fiscal year beginning on September 1, 2019, only to a community
collaborative in a county with a population of 555,000 or more that
is adjacent to a county with a population of 3.3 million or more.
This subsection expires August 31, 2020.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.