1-1     By:  Nelson                                           S.B. No. 1234
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1999; March 11, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Human Services;
 1-4     April 6, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; April 6, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1234                  By:  Carona
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to the expansion and funding of the Texas Integrated
1-11     Funding Initiative of the Health and Human Services Commission.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Chapter 531, Government Code, is amended by
1-14     adding Subchapter G to read as follows:
1-15                SUBCHAPTER G.  DEVELOPING LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH
1-16                      CARE SYSTEMS FOR CERTAIN CHILDREN
1-17           Sec. 531.251.  MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR YOUTH GRANTS.
1-18     (a)  The commission shall expand the Texas Integrated Funding
1-19     Initiative pilot project so that, on or before September 1, 2001,
1-20     the initiative is able to award grants to community projects for
1-21     mental health services for youth.
1-22           (b)  The commission by rule shall develop criteria for
1-23     awarding grants under this section that will encourage a community
1-24     to establish services and programs that suit the mental health
1-25     services needs of minors of the community.
1-26           (c)  The grants may be paid from the fund developed for the
1-27     Texas Integrated Funding Initiative.  The commission may establish
1-28     and identify money for related projects.
1-29           Sec. 531.252.  TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR GRANT PROJECTS.  The
1-30     commission may provide technical assistance to a community that
1-31     receives a grant under Section 531.251.
1-32           Sec. 531.253.  STATEWIDE EVALUATION SYSTEM.  The commission
1-33     shall develop an evaluation system to measure outcomes of projects
1-34     for services that are associated with the Texas Integrated Funding
1-35     Initiative.
1-36           SECTION 2.  (a)  To finance the Texas Integrated Funding
1-37     Initiative, the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services,
1-38     Texas Education Agency, Texas Department of Mental Health and
1-39     Mental Retardation, Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse,
1-40     Texas Youth Commission, and Texas Juvenile Probation Commission
1-41     each shall transfer to the Health and Human Services Commission
1-42     $30,000 in fiscal year 2000 and $70,000 in fiscal year 2001.
1-43           (b)  The Health and Human Services Commission shall promote
1-44     the participation of new communities in and projects for the Texas
1-45     Integrated Funding Initiative to attract matching funds and local
1-46     participation.
1-47           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-48     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-49     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-50     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-51     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-52     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-53     passage, and it is so enacted.
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