Bill Text: TX HB2707 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the expansion of the community mental health grant program to include services to and treatment of individuals with substance use disorders.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-11 - Referred to Public Health [HB2707 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2707-Introduced.html
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| By: Price | H.B. No. 2707 | |
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| relating to the expansion of the community mental health grant | ||
| program to include services to and treatment of individuals with | ||
| substance use disorders. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Section 531.0999, Government | ||
| Code, as added by Chapter 770 (H.B. 13), Acts of the 85th | ||
| Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.0999. GRANT PROGRAM FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND | ||
| SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER SERVICES. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 531.0999, Government Code, as added by | ||
| Chapter 770 (H.B. 13), Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular | ||
| Session, 2017, is amended by amending Subsections (a), (d), (f), | ||
| (h), and (i) to read as follows: | ||
| (a) To the extent money is appropriated to the commission | ||
| for that purpose, the commission shall establish a matching grant | ||
| program for the purpose of supporting community mental health and | ||
| substance use disorder programs providing services and treatment to | ||
| individuals experiencing a mental illness or substance use | ||
| disorder. | ||
| (d) A grant awarded under the matching grant program and | ||
| matching amounts must be used for the sole purpose of supporting | ||
| community programs that provide mental health care or substance use | ||
| disorder services and treatment to individuals with a mental | ||
| illness or substance use disorder, as applicable, and that | ||
| coordinate mental health care or substance use disorder services | ||
| for individuals with a mental illness or substance use disorder, as | ||
| applicable, with other transition support services. | ||
| (f) A nonprofit or governmental entity that applies for a | ||
| grant under this section must notify each local mental health | ||
| authority or local behavioral health authority with a local service | ||
| area that is covered wholly or partly by the entity's proposed | ||
| community mental health or substance use disorder program and must | ||
| provide in the entity's application a letter of support from each | ||
| local mental health authority or local behavioral health authority | ||
| with a local service area that is covered wholly or partly by the | ||
| entity's proposed community mental health or substance use disorder | ||
| program. The commission shall consider a local mental health | ||
| authority's or local behavioral health authority's written input | ||
| before awarding a grant under this section and may take any | ||
| recommendations made by the authority. | ||
| (h) A community that receives a grant under this section is | ||
| required to leverage funds in an amount: | ||
| (1) equal to 50 percent of the grant amount if the | ||
| community mental health or substance use disorder program is | ||
| located in a county with a population of less than 250,000; | ||
| (2) equal to 100 percent of the grant amount if the | ||
| community mental health or substance use disorder program is | ||
| located in a county with a population of at least 250,000; and | ||
| (3) equal to the percentage of the grant amount | ||
| otherwise required by this subsection for the largest county in | ||
| which a community mental health or substance use disorder program | ||
| is located if the community mental health or substance use disorder | ||
| program is located in more than one county. | ||
| (i) Except as provided by Subsection (j), from money | ||
| appropriated to the commission for each fiscal year to implement | ||
| this section, the commission shall reserve 50 percent of that total | ||
| to be awarded only as grants to a community mental health or | ||
| substance use disorder program located in a county with a | ||
| population not greater than 250,000. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2019. | ||
