Bill Text: TX SB415 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to individuals with intellectual disabilities committed to state supported living centers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-26 - Left pending in committee [SB415 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB415-Introduced.html
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By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 415 |
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relating to individuals with intellectual disabilities committed | ||
to state supported living centers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 593.052, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows: | ||
(b-1) An order for long-term placement in a residential care | ||
facility must state that the commitment for care, treatment, and | ||
training is authorized for not more than 12 months. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 593, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 593.0521 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 593.0521. RENEWAL OF ORDER FOR COMMITMENT. Not later | ||
than the 30th day before the date a commitment order is to expire | ||
under Section 593.052, the facility administrator shall notify a | ||
representative for the local mental retardation authority that | ||
serves the area in which the facility is located or in which the | ||
resident will reside after the expiration of the commitment order. | ||
The notice must include: | ||
(1) the date the commitment will expire; and | ||
(2) a request that the local mental retardation | ||
authority either: | ||
(A) prepare a transition plan for placing the | ||
resident in the community served by the authority; or | ||
(B) file an application to renew an order for | ||
long-term commitment in a residential care facility. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |