Bill Text: TX HB1329 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the payment of costs incurred by the involuntary commitment of persons with mental illness.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB1329 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1329-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1329 | ||
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| relating to the payment of costs incurred by the involuntary | ||
| commitment of persons with mental illness. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 571.018(a) and (b), Health and Safety | ||
| Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The costs for a hearing or proceeding under this | ||
| subtitle shall be paid by: | ||
| (1) the county in which [ |
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| detention procedures are initiated under Subchapter A or B, Chapter | ||
| 573; or | ||
| (2) if no emergency detention procedures are | ||
| initiated, the county that accepts an application for court-ordered | ||
| mental health services, issues an order for protective custody, or | ||
| issues an order for temporary mental health services. | ||
| (b) The county responsible for the costs of a hearing or | ||
| proceeding under Subsection (a) shall pay the costs of all | ||
| subsequent hearings or proceedings for that person under this | ||
| subtitle until the person is discharged from mental health | ||
| services. The county may not pay the costs from any fees collected | ||
| under Section 51.704, Government Code. The costs shall be billed by | ||
| the clerk of the court conducting the hearings. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1329 was passed by the House on May 8, | ||
| 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 2, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1329 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
