Bill Text: TX HB720 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a ketamine treatment grant program for ketamine clinics serving active duty military personnel, first responders, and veterans.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB720 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB720-Introduced.html
| 89R2366 MPF-F | ||
| By: Flores | H.B. No. 720 | |
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| relating to a ketamine treatment grant program for ketamine clinics | ||
| serving active duty military personnel, first responders, and | ||
| veterans. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 547, Government Code, as effective April | ||
| 1, 2025, is amended by adding Subchapter K to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER K. KETAMINE TREATMENT GRANT PROGRAM | ||
| Sec. 547.0501. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
| (1) "First responder" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 421.095. | ||
| (2) "Physician" means a person licensed to practice | ||
| medicine in this state. | ||
| (3) "Program" means the ketamine treatment grant | ||
| program established under this subchapter. | ||
| (4) "Veteran" means an individual who has served in: | ||
| (A) an active or reserve component of the army, | ||
| navy, air force, coast guard, or marine corps of the United States; | ||
| or | ||
| (B) the Texas National Guard, as defined by | ||
| Section 431.001. | ||
| Sec. 547.0502. KETAMINE TREATMENT GRANT PROGRAM. The | ||
| commission shall establish a ketamine treatment grant program to | ||
| award grants to ketamine clinics providing mental health treatment | ||
| to: | ||
| (1) active duty military personnel; | ||
| (2) first responders; and | ||
| (3) veterans. | ||
| Sec. 547.0503. USE OF GRANT. A ketamine clinic may use | ||
| grant money awarded under this subchapter to: | ||
| (1) cover the cost of uncompensated mental health | ||
| treatment provided to active duty military personnel, first | ||
| responders, and veterans; and | ||
| (2) pay for other activities, services, resources, | ||
| supplies, or equipment the commission determines necessary for the | ||
| clinic to provide the treatment described by Subdivision (1). | ||
| Sec. 547.0504. SELECTION AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF GRANT | ||
| RECIPIENTS. (a) The commission, with any necessary assistance of | ||
| physicians or other mental health care providers, may select | ||
| eligible ketamine clinics for a grant award under this subchapter. | ||
| (b) The commission shall: | ||
| (1) develop eligibility and selection criteria for | ||
| grant applicants; and | ||
| (2) establish accountability controls for grant | ||
| recipients to ensure the public purpose of providing mental health | ||
| treatment is accomplished and this state receives a return benefit. | ||
| Sec. 547.0505. GIFTS, GRANTS, AND DONATIONS. The | ||
| commission may solicit and accept gifts, grants, and donations from | ||
| any source for the purposes of this subchapter. | ||
| Sec. 547.0506. WORK GROUP. (a) The commission may | ||
| establish a work group to: | ||
| (1) assist the commission in developing, | ||
| implementing, or evaluating the program; and | ||
| (2) prepare a report on the results and outcomes of | ||
| grants awarded under this subchapter. | ||
| (b) A member of a work group established under this section: | ||
| (1) is not entitled to compensation for serving on the | ||
| work group; and | ||
| (2) may not be reimbursed for travel or other expenses | ||
| incurred while conducting the business of the work group. | ||
| (c) The work group established under this section is not | ||
| subject to Chapter 2110. | ||
| Sec. 547.0507. BIENNIAL REPORT. Not later than December 1 | ||
| of each even-numbered year, the commission shall submit a report to | ||
| the governor and the legislature regarding the activities of the | ||
| program and grant recipients, including the results and outcomes of | ||
| grants awarded under this subchapter. | ||
| Sec. 547.0508. RULES. The executive commissioner may adopt | ||
| rules necessary to implement this subchapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2025, the Health and | ||
| Human Services Commission shall establish and implement the | ||
| ketamine treatment grant program authorized by Subchapter K, | ||
| Chapter 547, Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. Not later than December 1, 2026, the Health and | ||
| Human Services Commission shall provide the initial report to the | ||
| governor and the legislature as required by Section 547.0507, | ||
| Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
