Bill Text: TX SB2111 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the Health and Human Services Commission developing a plan to contract with a public institution of higher education to operate a certain state hospital.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB2111 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2111-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the Health and Human Services Commission developing a plan to contract with a public institution of higher education to operate a certain state hospital.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB2111 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2111-Introduced.html
By: Watson | S.B. No. 2111 | |
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relating to the Health and Human Services Commission developing a | ||
plan to contract with public institutions of higher education to | ||
operate state hospitals. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 552, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subchapter E to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER E. STATE HOSPITAL OPERATIONS | ||
Sec. 552.151. TRANSITION PLANNING FOR CONTRACTED | ||
OPERATIONS OF CERTAIN STATE HOSPITALS. The commission shall | ||
establish a plan under which the commission would contract with | ||
local, public institutions of higher education to transfer the | ||
operations of certain state hospitals, to include Austin State | ||
Hospital, from the commission to a local, public institution of | ||
higher education. | ||
Sec. 552.152. PLAN REQUIREMENTS. (a) In developing the | ||
plan, the commission shall: | ||
(1) consult with local, public institutions of higher | ||
education; | ||
(2) establish procedures and policies to ensure that a | ||
public institution of higher education that contracts with the | ||
commission to operate a state hospital operates the hospital at a | ||
quality level at least equal to the quality level achieved by the | ||
commission; and | ||
(3) establish procedures and policies to monitor the | ||
care of state hospital patients. | ||
(b) The procedures and policies required to be established | ||
under Subsection (a) must ensure that the commission is able to | ||
obtain and maintain information on activities carried out under the | ||
contract without violating privacy or confidentiality rules. The | ||
procedures and policies must account for the commission obtaining | ||
and maintaining information on: | ||
(1) client outcomes; | ||
(2) individual and average lengths of stay, including | ||
computation of lengths of stay according to the number of days a | ||
patient is in the facility during each calendar year, regardless of | ||
discharge and readmission; | ||
(3) the number of incidents in which patients were | ||
restrained or secluded; | ||
(4) the number of incidents of serious assaults in the | ||
hospital setting; and | ||
(5) the number of occurrences in the hospital setting | ||
involving contacts with law enforcement personnel. | ||
Sec. 552.153. GOVERNING BOARDS FOR STATE HOSPITALS. | ||
(a) The plan required under this subchapter must establish | ||
guidelines for developing a governing board for each state hospital | ||
for independent governance of the state hospital. The governing | ||
board must be vested with a fiduciary responsibility. | ||
(b) A state hospital's governing board must include | ||
stakeholders interested in the provision of mental health services | ||
as follows: | ||
(1) at least one representative of the commission; | ||
(2) at least one sheriff working in the catchment | ||
area; | ||
(3) at least one judge presiding over mental health | ||
issues working in the catchment area; | ||
(4) at least one leader from an organization serving | ||
persons with mental illness; | ||
(5) at least one person with expertise in private | ||
health care system management; | ||
(6) at least one representative from a local mental | ||
health authority serving the catchment area; and | ||
(7) at least one representative from the local, public | ||
institution of higher education. | ||
(c) The commission's plan may provide for a state hospital's | ||
governing board to include any other person considered suitable by | ||
the commission in developing the plan. | ||
Sec. 552.154. GOVERNING BOARD RESPONSIBILITIES. The plan | ||
must account for the governing board overseeing the performance of | ||
the state hospital operated by a public institution of higher | ||
education. Each governing board shall undertake to develop | ||
regional cross-service care integration. | ||
Sec. 552.155. REPORT. Not later than September 1, 2020, the | ||
commission shall prepare and deliver to the governor, the | ||
lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, | ||
and the legislature a written report containing the plan and any | ||
recommendations for legislation or other actions necessary. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |