1-1     By:  Carona                                            S.B. No. 432
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 29, 2001; January 30, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
 1-4     Services; March 12, 2001, reported adversely, with favorable
 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0;
 1-6     March 12, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 432                   By:  Carona
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to the transportation of certain persons admitted to a
1-11     county mental health facility for mental health services.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 574, Health and Safety
1-14     Code, is amended by adding Section 574.0025 to read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 574.0025.  TRANSPORTATION AFTER FILING APPLICATION FOR
1-16     CERTAIN PERSONS.  (a)  A county mental health facility that has
1-17     completed a preliminary examination of a person for whom an
1-18     application for court-ordered mental health services is filed may
1-19     transport the person to:
1-20                 (1)  a facility of the single portal authority for the
1-21     service area;
1-22                 (2)  an appropriate inpatient mental health facility,
1-23     if no single portal authority serves the area; or
1-24                 (3)  a facility considered suitable by the county's
1-25     mental health authority, if no single portal authority serves the
1-26     area and an appropriate inpatient mental health facility is not
1-27     available.
1-28           (b)  The requirements prescribed by Section 574.045 for
1-29     transporting a patient apply to a person transported under this
1-30     section.
1-31           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-32     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-33     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-34     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-35     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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