By:  Eckels                                           H.B. No. 2085
       73R3769 CBH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the allocation of mental health and mental retardation
    1-3  funds to local mental health and mental retardation authorities.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 533.035, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
    1-7        (e)  On or before September 1, 1997, the department shall
    1-8  distribute funds under this section so that there is not greater
    1-9  than a five percent variance in the average annual per capita use
   1-10  of mental health or mental retardation resources for all
   1-11  authorities in this state.  Once this standard is met, the
   1-12  department, not later than September 1 of each year, shall adjust
   1-13  payments made under this section to reflect shifts in population or
   1-14  use patterns as necessary to ensure that the standard continues to
   1-15  be met.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.