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. 1-42 * * * * *