By:  Harris                                            S.B. No. 153
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       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)  A county may not require a mental health facility
 1-7     designated to provide court-ordered mental health services to pay a
 1-8     cost associated with a hearing or proceeding under this subtitle.
 1-9           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-14     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-15     passage, and it is so enacted.
1-16                          COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
1-17           Amend SB 153 by striking lines 5 through 9, and replacing
1-18     with the following:
1-19           SECTION 1.  Section 571.018, Health and Safety Code, is
1-20     amended by adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
1-21           (j)  When an inpatient mental health facility as defined
1-22     under 571.003 (9)(B) or (E), files an affidavit with the clerk of
1-23     the court certifying that it has received no compensation or
1-24     reimbursement for the treatment of a person for whom court costs
 2-1     have been paid or advanced, the judge of the probate court shall
 2-2     order the clerk of the court to refund the costs.
 2-3                                                              Hilderbran