76R12370 SMJ-D                          
         By Moncrief, et al.                                    S.B. No. 261
         Substitute the following for S.B. No. 261:
         By Maxey                                           C.S.S.B. No. 261
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to facilities and functions of facilities under the
 1-3     jurisdiction of the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental
 1-4     Retardation.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 532.001(b), Health and Safety Code, is
 1-7     amended to read as follows:
 1-8           (b)  The department also includes community services operated
 1-9     by the department and the following facilities:
1-10                 (1)  the central office of the department;
1-11                 (2)  the Austin State Hospital;
1-12                 (3)  the Big Spring State Hospital;
1-13                 (4)  the Kerrville State Hospital;
1-14                 (5)  the Rusk State Hospital;
1-15                 (6)  the San Antonio State Hospital;
1-16                 (7)  the Terrell State Hospital;
1-17                 (8)  the North Texas [Vernon-Wichita Falls] State
1-18     Hospital;
1-19                 (9)  the Abilene State School;
1-20                 (10)  the Austin State School;
1-21                 (11)  the Brenham State School;
1-22                 (12)  the Corpus Christi State School;
1-23                 (13)  the Denton State School;
1-24                 (14)  the Lubbock State School;
 2-1                 (15)  the Lufkin State School;
 2-2                 (16)  the Mexia State School;
 2-3                 (17)  the Richmond State School;
 2-4                 (18)  the San Angelo State School;
 2-5                 (19)  the San Antonio State School;
 2-6                 (20)  the Amarillo State Center;
 2-7                 (21)  the Beaumont State Center;
 2-8                 (22)  the El Paso State Center;
 2-9                 (23)  [the Harris County Psychiatric Center;]
2-10                 [(24)]  the Laredo State Center;
2-11                 (24) [(25)]  the Rio Grande State Center; and
2-12                 (25) [(26)]  the Waco Center for Youth[;]
2-13                 [(27)  the Dallas Mental Health Connections;]
2-14                 [(28)  the El Paso Psychiatric Hospital; and]
2-15                 [(29)  the Lubbock Psychiatric Hospital].
2-16           SECTION 2.  Section 571.003(21),  Health and Safety Code, is
2-17     amended to read as follows:
2-18                 (21)  "State mental hospital" means[:]
2-19                       [(A)]  a mental hospital operated by the
2-20     department[; or]
2-21                       [(B)  an inpatient mental health facility that is
2-22     included in Section 532.001(b)].
2-23           SECTION 3.  Section 574.041, Health and Safety Code, is
2-24     amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to
2-25     read as follows:
2-26           (a)  In an order for temporary or extended mental health
2-27     services specifying inpatient care, the court shall commit the
 3-1     patient to a designated mental health facility.  The court shall
 3-2     commit the patient to:
 3-3                 (1)  a [the] facility of a single portal authority for
 3-4     the area, if an authority has been designated for the area;
 3-5                 (2)  a private mental hospital under Section 574.042;
 3-6                 (3)  a hospital operated by a federal agency under
 3-7     Section 574.043; or
 3-8                 (4)  an inpatient mental health facility of the
 3-9     institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
3-10     under Section 574.044.
3-11           (d)  In this section, "facility of a single portal authority"
3-12     includes a private mental hospital under contract with a single
3-13     portal authority.
3-14           SECTION 4.  Chapter 596, Health and Safety Code, is repealed.
3-15           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
3-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-21     passage, and it is so enacted.