1-1     By:  Moncrief, Haywood                                 S.B. No. 261
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 25, 1999; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Health Services;
 1-4     February 22, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0;
 1-6     February 22, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 261                 By:  Moncrief
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to facilities and functions of facilities under the
1-11     jurisdiction of the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental
1-12     Retardation.
1-13           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-14           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 532.001, Health and
1-15     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-16           (b)  The department also includes community services operated
1-17     by the department and the following facilities:
1-18                 (1)  the central office of the department;
1-19                 (2)  the Austin State Hospital;
1-20                 (3)  the Big Spring State Hospital;
1-21                 (4)  the Kerrville State Hospital;
1-22                 (5)  the Rusk State Hospital;
1-23                 (6)  the San Antonio State Hospital;
1-24                 (7)  the Terrell State Hospital;
1-25                 (8)  the North Texas [Vernon-Wichita Falls] State
1-26     Hospital;
1-27                 (9)  the Abilene State School;
1-28                 (10)  the Austin State School;
1-29                 (11)  the Brenham State School;
1-30                 (12)  the Corpus Christi State School;
1-31                 (13)  the Denton State School;
1-32                 (14)  the Lubbock State School;
1-33                 (15)  the Lufkin State School;
1-34                 (16)  the Mexia State School;
1-35                 (17)  the Richmond State School;
1-36                 (18)  the San Angelo State School;
1-37                 (19)  the San Antonio State School;
1-38                 (20)  the Amarillo State Center;
1-39                 (21)  the Beaumont State Center;
1-40                 (22)  the El Paso State Center;
1-41                 (23)  [the Harris County Psychiatric Center;]
1-42                 [(24)]  the Laredo State Center;
1-43                 (24) [(25)]  the Rio Grande State Center; and
1-44                 (25) [(26)]  the Waco Center for Youth[;]
1-45                 [(27)  the Dallas Mental Health Connections;]
1-46                 [(28)  the El Paso Psychiatric Hospital; and]
1-47                 [(29)  the Lubbock Psychiatric Hospital].
1-48           SECTION 2.  Subdivision (21), Section 571.003,  Health and
1-49     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-50                 (21)  "State mental hospital" means[:]
1-51                       [(A)]  a mental hospital operated by the
1-52     department[; or]
1-53                       [(B)  an inpatient mental health facility that is
1-54     included in Section 532.001(b)].
1-55           SECTION 3.  Section 574.041, Health and Safety Code, is
1-56     amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to
1-57     read as follows:
1-58           (a)  In an order for temporary or extended mental health
1-59     services specifying inpatient care, the court shall commit the
1-60     patient to a designated mental health facility.  The court shall
1-61     commit the patient to:
1-62                 (1)  a [the] facility of a single portal authority for
1-63     the area, if an authority has been designated for the area;
1-64                 (2)  a private mental hospital under Section 574.042;
 2-1                 (3)  a hospital operated by a federal agency under
 2-2     Section 574.043; or
 2-3                 (4)  an inpatient mental health facility of the
 2-4     institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
 2-5     under Section 574.044.
 2-6           (d)  In this section, "facility of a single portal authority"
 2-7     includes a private mental hospital under contract with a single
 2-8     portal authority.
 2-9           SECTION 4.  Chapter 596, Health and Safety Code, is repealed.
2-10           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-16     passage, and it is so enacted.
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