Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 1234 amends the Government Code to require the Health and Human Services Commission to form a consortium to develop criteria for and implement the expansion of the Texas Integrated Funding Initiative pilot project and to develop local mental health care systems in communities for minors who are receiving residential mental health services or who are at risk of residential placement to receive mental health services. The act includes requirements relating to membership in the consortium, funding, proposals for and selection of expansion communities, and system development collaboration. The commission and the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation must jointly monitor the progress of the expansion communities in achieving goals. The commission is required to expand the initiative pilot project so that it is able to award grants before September 2001 to community projects for mental health services for youth and is authorized to provide technical assistance to certain communities.