Bill Text: TX HB3835 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of regional assisted outpatient treatment programs to provide court-ordered outpatient mental health services in certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-23 - Referred to County Affairs [HB3835 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3835-Introduced.html
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| By: Moody | H.B. No. 3835 | |
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| relating to the establishment of regional assisted outpatient | ||
| treatment programs to provide court-ordered outpatient mental | ||
| health services in certain counties. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 574, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Sections 574.038 and 574.039 to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Sec. 574.038. ESTABLISHMENT OF REGIONAL ASSISTED | ||
| OUTPATIENT TREATMENT PROGRAMS. The commissioners courts of two or | ||
| more counties may establish a regional assisted outpatient | ||
| treatment program to provide court-ordered outpatient mental | ||
| health services under this chapter in the participating counties. | ||
| Sec. 574.039. PROGRAM IN CERTAIN COUNTIES MANDATORY. (a) | ||
| The commissioners court of a county with a population of more than | ||
| 200,000 shall undertake to establish a program under this chapter | ||
| and apply for federal and state funding to cover program costs. The | ||
| criminal justice division of the governor's office may assist a | ||
| county in applying for federal funding. | ||
| (b) A county is required to establish a program under this | ||
| section only if the county receives federal or state funding | ||
| specifically for that purpose in an amount sufficient to pay the | ||
| program costs. | ||
| (c) A county that is required to establish a program under | ||
| this section and fails to establish or to maintain that program is | ||
| ineligible to receive grant funding from this state or any state | ||
| agency. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2021. | ||
