By:  Moncrief, Haywood                                 S.B. No. 261
         99S0050/1                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the composition of the Texas Department of Mental
 1-2     Health and Mental Retardation and to certain mental health services
 1-3     and facilities.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 532.001, Health and
 1-6     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (b)  The department also includes community services operated
 1-8     by the department and the following facilities:
 1-9                 (1)  the central office of the department;
1-10                 (2)  the Austin State Hospital;
1-11                 (3)  the Big Spring State Hospital;
1-12                 (4)  the Kerrville State Hospital;
1-13                 (5)  the Rusk State Hospital;
1-14                 (6)  the San Antonio State Hospital;
1-15                 (7)  the Terrell State Hospital;
1-16                 (8)  the North Texas [Vernon Wichita Falls] State
1-17     Hospital;
1-18                 (9)  the Abilene State School;
1-19                 (10)  the Austin State School;
1-20                 (11)  the Brenham State School;
1-21                 (12)  the Corpus Christi State School;
1-22                 (13)  the Denton State School;
1-23                 (14)  the Lubbock State School;
1-24                 (15)  the Lufkin State School;
 2-1                 (16)  the Mexia State School;
 2-2                 (17)  the Richmond State School;
 2-3                 (18)  the San Angelo State School;
 2-4                 (19)  the San Antonio State School;
 2-5                 (20)  the Amarillo State Center;
 2-6                 (21)  the Beaumont State Center;
 2-7                 (22)  the El Paso State Center;
 2-8                 (23)  [the Harris County Psychiatric Center;]
 2-9                 [(24)]  the Laredo State Center;
2-10                 (24) [(25)]  the Rio Grande State Center; and
2-11                 (25) [(26)]  the Waco Center for Youth[;]
2-12                 [(27)  the Dallas Mental Health Connections;]
2-13                 [(28)  the El Paso Psychiatric Hospital; and]
2-14                 [(29)  the Lubbock Psychiatric Hospital].
2-15           SECTION 2.  Subdivision (21), Section 571.003,  Health and
2-16     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
2-17                 (21)  "State mental hospital" means[:]
2-18                       [(A)]  a mental hospital operated by the
2-19     department[; or]
2-20                       [(B)  an inpatient mental health facility that is
2-21     included in Section 532.001(b)].
2-22           SECTION 3.  Subsection (a), Section 574.041, Health and
2-23     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
2-24           (a)  In an order for temporary or extended mental health
2-25     services specifying inpatient care, the court shall commit the
2-26     patient to a designated mental health facility.  The court shall
 3-1     commit the patient to:
 3-2                 (1)  the facility of a single portal authority for the
 3-3     area, including private mental hospitals under contract with the
 3-4     single portal authority, if an authority has been designated for
 3-5     the area;
 3-6                 (2)  a private mental hospital under Section 574.042;
 3-7                 (3)  a hospital operated by a federal agency under
 3-8     Section 574.043; or
 3-9                 (4)  an inpatient mental health facility of the
3-10     institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
3-11     under Section 574.044.
3-12           SECTION 4.  Chapter 596, Health and Safety Code, is repealed.
3-13           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
3-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-19     passage, and it is so enacted.