By Maxey, Naishtat, Raymond H.B. No. 865 74R2338 CBH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to an increase in federal funding for mental health 1-3 services for children and families. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 533, Health and Safety 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 533.046 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 533.046. FEDERAL FUNDING FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR 1-8 CHILDREN AND FAMILIES. (a) The department shall enter into an 1-9 interagency agreement with the Texas Department of Human Services 1-10 to: 1-11 (1) amend the eligibility requirements of the state's 1-12 emergency assistance plan under Title IV-A, Social Security Act (42 1-13 U.S.C. Section 601 et seq.), to include mental health emergencies; 1-14 and 1-15 (2) prescribe the procedures the agencies will use to 1-16 delegate to the department and to local mental health and mental 1-17 retardation authorities the administration of mental health 1-18 emergency assistance. 1-19 (b) The interagency agreement must provide that: 1-20 (1) the department certify to the Texas Department of 1-21 Human Services the nonfederal expenditures for which the state will 1-22 claim federal matching funds; and 1-23 (2) the Texas Department of Human Services retain 1-24 responsibility for making final eligibility decisions. 2-1 (c) The department shall allocate to local mental health and 2-2 mental retardation authorities 66 percent of the federal funds 2-3 received under this section. 2-4 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-10 passage, and it is so enacted.