AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the payment of costs in a proceeding for court-ordered
 1-2     mental health services.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 571.018, Health and Safety Code, is
 1-5     amended by adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
 1-6           (j)  When an inpatient mental health facility as defined
 1-7     under Section 571.003(9)(B) or (E) files an affidavit with the
 1-8     clerk of the court certifying that it has received no compensation
 1-9     or reimbursement for the treatment of a person for whom court costs
1-10     have been paid or advanced, the judge of the probate court shall
1-11     order the clerk of the court to refund the costs.
1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 153 passed the Senate on
         March 11, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
         the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 28, 1999, by the
         following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 153 passed the House, with
         amendment, on May 26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 144,
         Nays 0, two present not voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor