1-1     By:  Harris                                            S.B. No. 153
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 13, 1999; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
 1-4     February 24, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas
 1-5     4, Nays 0; February 24, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the payment of costs in a proceeding for court-ordered
 1-9     mental health services.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 571.018, Health and Safety Code, is
1-12     amended by adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
1-13           (j)  A county may not require a mental health facility
1-14     designated to provide court-ordered mental health services to pay a
1-15     cost associated with a hearing or proceeding under this subtitle.
1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.
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