By Munoz                                              H.B. No. 2923
       74R7758 JJT-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to establishing a community-based treatment program for
    1-3  certain dually diagnosed children in a region bordering Mexico.
    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 533.0355 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 533.0355.  COMMUNITY-BASED TREATMENT FOR CERTAIN
    1-8  CHILDREN WITH SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT NEEDS.  (a)  The department
    1-9  and the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse jointly shall
   1-10  contract with a mental health and mental retardation authority
   1-11  described by Subsection (b) to establish a treatment program for
   1-12  children who are diagnosed as having treatment needs for:
   1-13              (1)  substance abuse; and
   1-14              (2)  mental illness or mental retardation.
   1-15        (b)  The contract must be with a mental health and mental
   1-16  retardation authority whose jurisdiction includes a county that
   1-17  shares a border with the United Mexican States and has a population
   1-18  of more than 375,000.
   1-19        (c)  The contract must require that the program be located in
   1-20  a treatment facility operated by a community center and located in:
   1-21              (1)  a county described by Subsection (b); and
   1-22              (2)  a municipality that has a population of less than
   1-23  40,000.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-5  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-6  passage, and it is so enacted.