1-1  By:  Maxey, Naishtat (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini)      H.B. No. 865
    1-2       Raymond
    1-3        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 1995;
    1-4  May 2, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
    1-5  and Human Services; May 10, 1995, reported favorably by the
    1-6  following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 10, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-7                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-8                                AN ACT
    1-9  relating to an increase in federal funding for mental health
   1-10  services for children and families.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 533, Health and Safety
   1-13  Code, is amended by adding Section 533.046 to read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 533.046.  FEDERAL FUNDING FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR
   1-15  CHILDREN AND FAMILIES.  (a)  The department shall enter into an
   1-16  interagency agreement with the Texas Department of Human Services
   1-17  to:
   1-18              (1)  amend the eligibility requirements of the state's
   1-19  emergency assistance plan under Title IV-A, Social Security Act (42
   1-20  U.S.C. Section 601 et seq.), to include mental health emergencies;
   1-21  and
   1-22              (2)  prescribe the procedures the agencies will use to
   1-23  delegate to the department and to local mental health and mental
   1-24  retardation authorities the administration of mental health
   1-25  emergency assistance.
   1-26        (b)  The interagency agreement must provide that:
   1-27              (1)  the department certify to the Texas Department of
   1-28  Human Services the nonfederal expenditures for which the state will
   1-29  claim federal matching funds; and
   1-30              (2)  the Texas Department of Human Services retain
   1-31  responsibility for making final eligibility decisions.
   1-32        (c)  The department shall allocate to local mental health and
   1-33  mental retardation authorities 66 percent of the federal funds
   1-34  received under this section.
   1-35        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-36  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-37  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-38  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-39  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-40  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-41  passage, and it is so enacted.
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