By Harris                                              S.B. No. 153
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the payment of costs in a proceeding for court-ordered
 1-3     mental health services.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 571.018, Health and Safety Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
 1-7           (j)  A county may not require a mental health facility
 1-8     designated to provide court-ordered mental health services to pay a
 1-9     cost associated with a hearing or proceeding under this subtitle.
1-10           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-16     passage, and it is so enacted.