Bill Text: TX SB613 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to services provided by the Health and Human Services Commission to sexually violent offenders who are incompetent to attend sex offender treatment.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB613 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB613-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 613 | ||
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| relating to services provided by the Health and Human Services | ||
| Commission to sexually violent offenders who are incompetent to | ||
| attend sex offender treatment. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 841.0835, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 841.0835. COMMITTED PERSONS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS. | ||
| (a) The Health and Human Services Commission, after coordination | ||
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| services, disability services, and housing for a committed person | ||
| with an intellectual or developmental disability, a mental illness, | ||
| or a physical disability that prevents the person from effectively | ||
| participating in the sex offender treatment program administered by | ||
| the office. | ||
| (b) For a committed person who the office has determined is | ||
| unable to effectively participate in the sex offender treatment | ||
| program because the person's mental illness prevents the person | ||
| from understanding and internalizing the concepts presented by the | ||
| program's treatment material, the Health and Human Services | ||
| Commission shall provide inpatient mental health services until the | ||
| person is able to participate effectively in the sex offender | ||
| treatment program. | ||
| (c) A person who is adjudicated as a sexually violent | ||
| predator under this chapter and who has a mental illness that | ||
| prevents the person from effectively participating in a sex | ||
| offender treatment program presents a substantial risk of serious | ||
| harm to the person or others for purposes of Chapter 574. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 613 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 4, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 613 passed the House on | ||
| May 21, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 3, one | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
