Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 434 amends the Government Code to require the Health and Human Services Commission to require the Texas Department of Health and the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation to coordinate the development and enforcement of policies relating to mental health services that are provided in a private mental hospital licensed by the Texas Department of Health or in an identifiable part of a general hospital in which diagnosis, treatment, and care for persons with mental illness is provided and that is licensed by the Texas Department of Health.

            The act also amends the Health and Safety Code to require the Texas Board of Mental Health and Mental Retardation to appoint an advisory committee on inpatient mental health services. The committee is to advise the board on the coordination and consistency of the policies described above and on the training for inpatient mental health facility surveyors or investigators.