Bill Text: TX SB897 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the administration of a grant program to support community mental health programs assisting veterans and their families.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-24 - Filed [SB897 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB897-Introduced.html
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| By: Blanco | S.B. No. 897 | |
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| relating to the administration of a grant program to support | ||
| community mental health programs assisting veterans and their | ||
| families. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 547.0304 and 547.0305, Government Code, | ||
| as effective April 1, 2025, are amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 547.0304. MATCHING GRANT CONDITIONS: SINGLE COUNTIES. | ||
| For services and treatment provided in a single county, the | ||
| commission shall condition each grant provided under this | ||
| subchapter on a potential grant recipient providing funds from | ||
| non-state sources in a total amount at least equal to: | ||
| (1) 25 percent of the grant amount if the community | ||
| mental health program to be supported by the grant provides | ||
| services and treatment in a county with a population of less than | ||
| 100,000; or | ||
| (2) 50 percent of the grant amount if the community | ||
| mental health program to be supported by the grant provides | ||
| services and treatment in a county with a population of 100,000 or | ||
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| Sec. 547.0305. MATCHING GRANT CONDITIONS: MULTIPLE | ||
| COUNTIES. For a community mental health program that provides | ||
| services and treatment in more than one county, the commission | ||
| shall condition each grant provided under this subchapter on a | ||
| potential grant recipient providing funds from non-state sources in | ||
| a total amount at least equal to: | ||
| (1) 25 percent of the grant amount if the county with | ||
| the largest population in which the community mental health program | ||
| to be supported by the grant provides services and treatment has a | ||
| population of less than 100,000; or | ||
| (2) 50 percent of the grant amount if the county with | ||
| the largest population in which the community mental health program | ||
| to be supported by the grant provides services and treatment has a | ||
| population of 100,000 or more [ |
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| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| a grant awarded on or after the effective date of this Act. A grant | ||
| awarded before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law | ||
| in effect on the date the award was made, and the former law is | ||
| continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. The Health and Human Services Commission is | ||
| required to implement the changes in law made by this Act to | ||
| Sections 547.0304 and 547.0305, Government Code, only if the | ||
| legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose in an | ||
| amount greater than the amount appropriated to the commission for | ||
| that purpose for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2025. | ||
| If the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that | ||
| purpose and in such amount, the commission may, but is not required | ||
| to, implement those changes in law using other money available to | ||
| the commission for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
