By:  Nelson                                           S.B. No. 1234
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the expansion and funding of the Texas Integrated
 1-2     Funding Initiative of the Health and Human Services Commission.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Chapter 531, Government Code, is amended by
 1-5     adding Subchapter G to read as follows:
 1-6                SUBCHAPTER G.  DEVELOPING LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH
 1-7                      CARE SYSTEMS FOR CERTAIN CHILDREN
 1-8           Sec. 531.251.  MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR YOUTH GRANTS.
 1-9     (a)  The commission shall expand the Texas Integrated Funding
1-10     Initiative pilot project so that, on or before September 1, 2001,
1-11     the initiative is able to award grants to community projects for
1-12     mental health services for youth.
1-13           (b)  The commission by rule shall develop criteria for
1-14     awarding grants under this section that will encourage a community
1-15     to establish services and programs that suit the mental health
1-16     services needs of minors of the community.
1-17           (c)  The grants may be paid from the fund developed for the
1-18     Texas Integrated Funding Initiative.  The commission may establish
1-19     and identify money for related projects.
1-20           Sec. 531.252.  TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR GRANT PROJECTS.  The
1-21     commission may provide technical assistance to a community that
1-22     receives a grant under Section 531.251.
1-23           Sec. 531.253.  STATEWIDE EVALUATION SYSTEM.  The commission
1-24     shall develop an evaluation system to measure outcomes of projects
 2-1     for services that are associated with the Texas Integrated Funding
 2-2     Initiative.
 2-3           SECTION 2.  (a)  To finance the Texas Integrated Funding
 2-4     Initiative, the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services,
 2-5     Texas Education Agency, Texas Department of Mental Health and
 2-6     Mental Retardation, Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse,
 2-7     Texas Youth Commission, and Texas Juvenile Probation Commission
 2-8     each shall transfer to the Health and Human Services Commission
 2-9     $30,000 in fiscal year 2000 and $70,000 in fiscal year 2001.
2-10           (b)  The Health and Human Services Commission shall promote
2-11     the participation of new communities in and projects for the Texas
2-12     Integrated Funding Initiative to attract matching funds and local
2-13     participation.
2-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-20     passage, and it is so enacted.