Amend CSSB 358 (House Committee Report) in Section 7 of the
bill by striking added Section 533.0346, Health and Safety Code
(page 7, lines 14-18), and substituting the following:
      Sec. 533.0346.  AUTHORITY TO TRANSFER SERVICES TO COMMUNITY
CENTERS.  (a)  The department may transfer operations of and
services provided at the  Beaumont State Center, and Laredo State
Center to a community center established under Chapter 534,
including a newly established center providing mental retardation
services or mental health and mental retardation services.
      (b)  The transfer may occur only on the department's approval
of a plan submitted in accordance with Section 534.001(d) or of an
amendment to a previously approved plan.  In developing the plan or
plan amendment, the center or proposed center proposing to accept
the state center operation and service responsibilities shall
consider input from consumers of mental health and mental
retardation services and family members of and advocates for those
consumers, organizations that represent affected employees, and
other providers of mental health and mental retardation services.
      (c)  The center or proposed center proposing to accept the
state center operation and service responsibilities shall publish
notice of the initial planning meeting regarding the content of the
plan or plan amendment and of the meeting to review the content of
the proposed plan or plan amendment before it is submitted under
Section 534.001(d).  The notices must include the time and location
of the meeting.  The notice of the meeting to review the content of
the plan or amendment must include information regarding how to
obtain a copy of the proposed plan or amendment.  The notices must
be published not fewer than 30 days and not more than 90 days
before the date set for the meeting in a newspaper of general
circulation in each county containing any part of the proposed
service area.  If a county in which notice is required to be
published does not have a newspaper of general circulation, the
notices shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in
the nearest county in which a newspaper of general circulation is
published.
      (d)  At the time the operations and services are transferred
to the community center, money supporting the cost of providing
operations and services at a state center shall be transferred to
the community center to ensure continuity of services.